Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Windfield Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Windfield Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43851, -8.64514
- SMR number
- GA059-064----
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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 gently undulating pastureland; formerly demesne land. One of 14 similar features marked on the OS 6-inch maps (see also GA059-064001- to GA059-064013-). This example is shown on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 25m E-W) that is defined by a solid line and planted with trees. Field banks, running roughly E-W, abut it at NE and WNW. A pathway running to the N of the field banks skirts around its N section. The enclosing element, an earthen bank (Wth 1m; H c. 1.4m), only survives from WNW to NE. Trees and bushes are growing around its perimeter. South of the bank the trees have been cleared and a hollow marks the site.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.