Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Glennafosha,rusheens North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennafosha,rusheens North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47845, -8.90594
- SMR number
- GA043-092----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 undulating grassland. Aerial reconnaissance in September 1984 (ASGAP 167:65) bought to light a series of earthworks covering an area of c. 15 acres. Within N half of the system are the remains of three houses of similar size (L 12m, Wth 6m), two with internal divisions. Small patches of lazy beds are visible between them. To S, a series of grassed-over banks of earth and stone are visible, and a rectangular hollow (L7m, Wth 6m) could represent a fourth house. Near E limits of the complex is an enigmatic circular enclosure. A ringfort (GA043-088----) and CBG (GA043-088001-) lie c. 100m W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.