Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheepfold
Ogúil, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ogúil
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36371, -9.33448
- SMR number
- GA067-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A roughly subcircular enclosure marked on the 1898-9 resurvey of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection to be a sheepfold (13m N-S; 10.8m E-W 10.8) made up of a single line of drystone walling (H 1.5m).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 August 2016
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.