Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castletown (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56640, -8.84193
- SMR number
- GA029-217----
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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 pastureland to the W of a new stretch of the realigned N17. This rectangular enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2014. Traces of an enclosing bank are visible along the SE, SW and NW sides. The NE sector is clipped by a later NW-SE running field boundary.
The following image has been uploaded: GA029-217----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 11 March 2014.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.