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
- 53.54582, -9.90180
- SMR number
- GA023-050002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located within the Connemara National Park, on a small plateau in a bend on the E bank of the Polladirk River. This small enclosure (L 4m; Wth 2.8m), aligned NNW-SSE, is defined by a rubble wall. And internal division gives it an overall figure-of-eight plan. A gap at W may mark an entrance. Another enclosure (GA023-050001-) lies c. 27m to the N. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
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.