Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Annagh Hill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh Hill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40571, -8.81662
- SMR number
- GA057-010001-
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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 top of a low rise in pastureland. A subrectangular raised area (N-S 18.2m, E-W 15m) defined by a scarp, best preserved along N and E sides. Traces of a possible gap are visible in W side. There is a deep round-bottomed fosse on N side. A settlement cluster (GA057-010002-) is associated.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.