Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lee'S Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lee'S Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42234, -9.13237
- SMR number
- GA055-051----
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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 N end of Lee's Island in Lough Corrib. Marked on 3rd (1922) ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular mound with encircling fosse (D c. 35m). Inaccessible at time of visit owing to dense overgrowth.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.