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Enclosure

Castlegar East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Castlegar East, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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