Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlegar East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegar East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41301, -8.30933
- SMR number
- GA061-025----
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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
On a very gentle N-facing slope; formerly part of Castlegar Demesne. A very poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (D 26m) consisting of a central area defined by a low scarp, with traces of a shallow external fosse and counterscarp at SSE, suggesting that there may have been an outer bank. An apparently undisturbed area of level ground at SSW may be the original entrance. A road overlies N sector.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.