Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Eighterard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eighterard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43677, -9.31946
- SMR number
- GA054-027----
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 gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular area (NNW-SSE 39m) defined by a scarp from E through S to W; no surface traces survive elsewhere. (Killanin 1947, 125)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.