Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gardenfield, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gardenfield
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54855, -8.87493
- SMR number
- GA029-077----
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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
In level pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m). All that survives is a degraded scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank from NW through N to E. A vegetation band defines the monument elsewhere. The W section of the interior has been quarried out. Two ringforts (GA029-078----, GA029-079----) lie 30m to SW and 80m to SSW respectively. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.