Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Hillswood West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hillswood West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51905, -8.76516
- SMR number
- GA030-070----
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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
On a hillock in low-lying grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a tree-planted enclosure. What survives is a poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 43.5m, N-S 40.5m) defined by a modern drystone wall. However, this appears to overlie an earlier wall, the presence of which is indicated by a spread of stone from SW to N. The footings of the original wall (Wth 1.6m) are visible at W. The interior is still planted with trees.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.