Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Cloonascragh (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonascragh (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50619, -8.65882
- SMR number
- GA045-011001-
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
On S-facing slope in pastureland. A large circular enclosure (D 127m), in poor condition, defined by a low bank and external fosse (Wth 4m). A field boundary overlies the bank from W to N and another cuts the monument at N and S. A CBG (GA045-011----) is associated and there is a broken bullaun in NW quadrant. A ringfort (GA045-012----), lies c. 100m to NE. (Claffey 1983, 149-50)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.