Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caltra, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltra
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44779, -8.44004
- SMR number
- GA060-024----
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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 level pastureland. A fairly well-preserved oval enclosure (NE-SW 43m, NW-SE 28m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of stone-facing are visible on the outer bank which is overlain from N to E by a modern field wall. Gaps in both banks and a causeway over the fosse at NNE suggest that this was the original entrance.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.