Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Keekill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keekill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Milla Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Milla Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.42662, -9.09927
- SMR number
- GA056-072001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In low-lying grassland. A large poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NNW-SSE 78m) defined by a drystone wall from WNW through N to SSE. Gap at ENE appears modern. A field wall cuts the monument at WNW and SSE, to SW of which the enclosing element is visible only as a grassed-over bank. A CBG (GA056-092002-) lies in E sector of the interior. When coupled with the td. name, the physical remains suggest that the monument is ecclesiastical in nature.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.