Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rinnaknock, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinnaknock
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44683, -9.20710
- SMR number
- GA055-065----
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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 the summit of a low headland on E shore of Lough Corrib. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small circular hachured enclosure (D c. 30m) and on 3rd ed. (1922) as a subcircular area defined by a field boundary. What survives is an overgrown subcircular area (NE-SW 22.3m) enclosed by a fairly wide but modern-looking drystone wall (Wth 1.35m) with an entrance at SE. This may overlie an older wall as evidenced by a line of collapsed stone visible beneath it internally.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.