Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lowville, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowville
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39761, -8.36652
- SMR number
- GA061-117----
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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
In level pastureland, formerly demesne land. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular tree-planted enclosure. The visible remains comprise a large well-preserved circular enclosure (D 51m) defined by a flat-topped regular bank (H 1.8m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.8m). A number of gaps are present but that at SW (Wth 4m) is probably the original entrance. Mature sycamore and ash trees grow along the bank. Probably a tree-ring, but the possibility of it being a landscaped ringfort cannot be ruled out.
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
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.