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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Cloonkeen South, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Cloonkeen South, 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
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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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

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

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

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