Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Corrafaireen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrafaireen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40158, -8.74299
- SMR number
- GA058-086----
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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 a N-facing slope in limestone outcrop and scrubland. Poorly preserved overgrown almost circular enclosure (N-S 19m, E-W 18m) defined by a narrow low stone wall (Wth 1m max., H 0.75m). A small circular enclosure (D c. 8m), also defined by a stone wall (Wth 1.5m, H 1.2m), lies 35m to N; possibly a house. (ASGAP 385: 36, 41)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.