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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
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.40614, -8.29571
SMR number
GA061-035----

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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

On level farmland, formerly part of the demesne of Castlegar House. A small pond lies 25m to N. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a slightly oval tree-planted enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 35m). What survives is a very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure cut across by a modern field boundary at NNE and SSW. Nothing survives to W of the boundary. To E, it is defined by a narrow semicircular fosse (NNE-SSW c. 35m, Wth c. 1m). The interior is uneven but grass-covered. Possibly a landscape feature but the demesne land did contain a number of ringforts, two of which lie to SE (see GA061-037----, GA061-039----). A similar monument (GA061-036----) lies 80m to S.

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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