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Designed landscape - folly

Caltragh (Killower ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - folly, Caltragh, 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
Caltragh (Killower ED)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Knights Tower
Latest-edition OS map
Knights Tower (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.48256, -8.96843
SMR number
GA042-063----

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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 upper W-facing slopes of Knockmaa, 285m WNW of a cairn (GA042-064----). A partially collapsed drystone-built structure, roughly U-shaped in plan and open towards W (N wall: L 13.7m, E wall: L 14m: S wall: L 9m). The double-faced walls appear to vary in thickness but are best preserved at S where they are up to 2.2m in height. The internal plan is completely obscured by collapsed stone. Another folly crowns the cairn to ESE.

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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