Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlegar East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegar East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41534, -8.31607
- SMR number
- GA061-023003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating grassland, formerly part of the demesne land of Castlegar House, Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a penannular tree-planted enclosure (D c. 30m) encircling a holy well (GA061-023001-). What survives is a poorly preserved roughly circular bivallate enclosure (D c. 20m max.) defined by a low scarp/bank and a wide flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 2m). The outer bank (H 0.4m max.) is visible from NNW through E to S. A number of small gaps are present but all appear to be modern. Possibly a landscape feature but more likely to be an enclosure associated with the holy well. (Harbison 1975, 100)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.