Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Cloonkeen South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46194, -8.85502
- SMR number
- GA043-060001-
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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 gently undulating farmland to E of the Clare River, it overlooks an area to S which is prone to seasonal flooding. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 100m, N-S 98m) skirted from SE to SW by the td. boundary. It is defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to SW; no trace survives elsewhere. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved at S, and faint traces of the fosse are present from S through W to N. Within the interior is a slight earthen mound (12.5m by 12m, H 0.3m) just N of centre, and a CBG (GA043-060002-) lies in SE quadrant.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.