Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Hillsbrook Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hillsbrook Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48395, -8.69617
- SMR number
- GA044-069----
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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 grassland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a subcircular hollow (c. 25m by c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives. Probably a landscape feature associated with Hillsbrook House 325m to SE: a similar monument (GA044-070----) lies 300m 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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.