Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (darcy), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (darcy)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54609, -8.79560
- SMR number
- GA030-106----
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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 grassland within the former Gallagh Demesne. A very poorly preserved circular enclosure (D c. 50m) noted during aerial reconnaissance in July 1965 (CUCAP AIR 74). It was enclosed by two, possibly three, earthen banks and intervening fosses. Only faint traces of a bank and external fosse are identifiable on the ground.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.