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Enclosure

Creggaun (Dillon),Creggaun (Killian By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Creggaun (Dillon), Creggaun, 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
Creggaun (Dillon),Creggaun (Killian By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.43196, -8.34828
SMR number
GA061-072----

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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 marshy ground. On inspection in January 1984, this poorly preserved roughly rectangular enclosure (44m N-S; 37m E-W) was defined by a denuded bank (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) from SSE to WSW and by a scarp (av. H 0.8m) from WSW through N to SSE. Tentative traces of a possible very shallow external fosse (Wth c. 1m) were visible. A townland boundary wall cut across the S sector of the interior, from roughly ESE to WSW and the bank was only evident to the S of it. There were faint traces of N-S running lazy beds in the interior, which otherwise was clear. On re-inspection in November 2001, the area to the N of the townland boundary, about three quarters of the monument, was completely planted with trees. (Alcock et al., 1999, 187, no. 2465)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 17 August 2023

References

Alcock, O., de Hora, K. and Gosling, P. 1999 Archaeological Inventory of County Galway. Vol. II. North Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

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

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