Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Johnstown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mary Skerretts Mount
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50120, -8.95074
- SMR number
- GA043-094----
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
Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure or mound (D c. 20m). Though not marked on 3rd ed. (1930), the site name does appear, albeit now transferred to another monument (GA043-019----) 450m to SSE. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.