Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garrafine (ussher),scarreth, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrafine (ussher),scarreth
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40313, -8.45149
- SMR number
- GA060-091----
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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 ground, skirted by a road at S. A fairly large well-preserved irregularly shaped enclosure (N-S 89m, E-W >50m) defined by an inner bank, intervening fosse, and outer bank. The monument is cut across by the td. boundary wall running from N to SSE, and little or no visible surface trace survives to E of it. To W of the wall, it is defined by a low inner bank from SSE to W and by a scarp from W to N. The deep flat-bottomed fosse is intact from SSE to N. Traces of an outer bank are visible at S for a length of c. 15m, it is truncated at SSW by the road.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.