Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rosleague, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosleague
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55113, -9.98029
- SMR number
- GA023-030001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Crowning the steep-sided promontory which divides Ballynakill Harbour from Bearna Dhearg Bay. Described by Redington (1914, 237) as 'an erratic boulder of white granite' (H c. 1.5m, L/Wth 0.85m). No visible trace of the stone (GA023-029----), or the small 'enclosure' (GA023-029001-) adjoining it on E (ibid., 239), survives; the promontory is now mantled by a fir plantation. A stone pair lies c. 250m to SSW (GA023-030----) and there is a pre-bog wall (GA023-039----) on SE slopes of the hill.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 26 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.