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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40614, -8.29571
- SMR number
- GA061-035----
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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.