Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherlustraun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlustraun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49324, -9.01098
- SMR number
- GA042-056----
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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 low-lying level grassland, overlooked by Knockmaa to SE. Poorly preserved irregular enclosure (NE-SW 52.6m, NW-SE 42.4m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, except from NW through N to NE where a field wall, following a roughly ENE-WSW axis, cuts the monument. Within the interior are a number of mounds and hollows, including the outline of two possible rectangular houses: according to local tradition, this was the site of a number of pre-famine houses.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.