Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Munga, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Munga
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46837, -9.94761
- SMR number
- GA036-016----
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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 flat bogland. This circular enclosure (diam. 32m) is the middle one of three similar enclosures (see also GA036-015---- c. 174m to the SW and GA036-017---- c. 130m to the NE) running in a roughly NE-SW line to the SE of the embankment of the former Galway-Clifden railway line. Like the others, it is constructed entirely of a low bank of the bog (max. H 0.4m; Wth 0.6m) on which it sits. The date and function of the enclosures are unknown. However, they appear to be late features and are marked only on the 1898 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map. They may be associated with Munga Lodge, now ruined, which lies c. 377m to the NW. All three enclosures are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Crannog2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.