Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockereen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockereen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.43381, -9.02204
- SMR number
- GA056-105----
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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
120m SSE of a ringfort (GA056-102----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 35m, E-W c. 25m) cut by a field wall at N and S; a laneway is shown here on 3rd ed. (1920). That section of the monument to E of the laneway is no longer visible and is used as a vegetable garden, while a pronounced scarp indicates the outline of the enclosure to W.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.