Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Esker (annagh Ed),lisgub East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esker (annagh Ed),lisgub East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40357, -8.47215
- SMR number
- GA060-069----
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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 gentle rise. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as a large enclosure (D c. 80): a curving line of hachures delimited it form ENE through S to SW, while a curving field boundary, which also formed the td. and B. Boundary, appears from SW to N. The enclosure was levelled in the late 1970s: according to the landowner, it was enclosed by a bank and fosse. Apart from indistinct undulations in the field, no visible surface trace survives and farm buildings now occupy W and N sectors. A similar enclosure (GA060-065----) lay 325m to N.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.