Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockbrack (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54601, -9.90191
- SMR number
- GA023-050001-
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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
Located on flat low-lying ground in the Connemara National Park, just off a bend on the E bank of the Polladirk River. The land rises steeply on both sides of the river and the area is one of rough pastureland. Lazy beds indicate the former practice of tillage. This subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 11m N-S; 8.5m E-W; max. H 1.1m at NE) is defined by a rubble-built wall. A small annexe (dims. 3.4m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE; max. H 1m) is incorporated into it at E. The enclosure may have been reused as a sheepfold in more recent times. Field walls extend from it at NE and SE. A small enclosure (GA023-050002-) lies c. 27m to the S. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
The following image has been appended:
GA023-050001-_01 Overview from NW.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 7 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.