Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountross, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountross
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43098, -9.11946
- SMR number
- GA055-060002-
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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
Immediately NE of a folly (GA055-060001-). A penannular area (NW-SW 8.7m, NE-SW 7.05m max.) defined by a low but wide drystone wall, now largely collapsed. The interior (D c. 1.6m) is defined by a circular drystone revetment. A gap at NE may mark the original entrance. Possibly a hut, but according to local tradition, it was a place where poitín was distilled.
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
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.