Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockaloura East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaloura East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55494, -8.75879
- SMR number
- GA030-133----
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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
In pastureland. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (c. 72m E-W; c. 64m N-S) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2014 and it is also faintly visible on OSi digitalglobe imagery (2011-2013). Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded: GA030-133----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2014)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.