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Earthwork

Lehinch (Tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Lehinch, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lehinch (Tiaquin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.55436, -8.55358
SMR number
GA031-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a low hummock in flat marshy land known locally as 'Lehinch Lake'; a partially drained turlough. A low circular earthen platform (D 15.9m, H 1.6m) in fair condition. Two trees are growing at S edge of its flat summit (D 8m). According to local tradition, there was a stone-built 'look-out tower' with 'windows' here. No visible surface trace of it survives but it was probably synonymous with the tiny open circle shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, on W part of the mound. There is an entrance to a natural limestone cave nearby. Possibly a small lake dwelling or a landscape feature; the 'tower' could have been a folly.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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