Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Annaghkeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaghkeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45013, -9.19187
- SMR number
- GA055-001002-
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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
At SE end of a low ridge and 40m NE of a cairn (GA055-001001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small hachured enclosure and on 3rd ed. (1922) as a roughly circular field (D c. 25m). The visible remains comprise a subcircular area (E-W 25m, N-S 22.2m) defined by a wide drystone wall built in short straight sections and not at all cashel-like in construction. There is a well-preserved entrance at W and the interior is slightly lower than the exterior. Probably a landscape feature built on the site of the earthwork.
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
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.