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Enclosure - large enclosure

Cahermorris, County Galway, Ireland

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Townland
Cahermorris
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.42821, -8.99064
SMR number
GA056-043001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 rough scrub and grassland. When visited in September 1983, this monument consisted of a large roughly D-shaped enclosure (N-S 85m, E-W 80m) defined by a well-preserved drystone wall (Wth 2.9m, H 1.7m max.). A sketch plan by Westropp (1919, 168) shows a gap at NNE, probably the same point at which he noted 'a slight trace of a mortar-built gateway' (ibid., 182-3): no definite surface traces of either were found. The monument was almost completely levelled in April/May 1991 as a result of land clearance. A castle (GA056-042----) stood in the interior and a ringfort (GA056-043002-) lies 25m to NW. (Anon. 1919, 165)

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

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1991).

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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