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
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48342, -8.69170
- SMR number
- GA044-070----
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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
Some 300m ESE of a similar monument (GA044-069----). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular hollow planted with trees. The visible remains comprise a subcircular enclosure (N-S 23m, E-W 18m), in fair condition, defined by a flat-topped bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. A number of mature trees are growing on the bank. Probably a tree-ring associated with the nearby house.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.