Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.44035, -8.63042
- SMR number
- GA059-067----
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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 slight rise. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an irregular tree-planted enclosure and on 3rd ed. (1932) as an irregular wall curving from N through E to S. No visible surface trace survives. However, its line can be followed from S through to W to N by a curving scarp indicating the former presence of a subcircular enclosure (D c. 50m).
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.