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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37186, -9.34107
- SMR number
- GA067-036----
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
On a hilltop. This is a large roughly subrectangular sheepfold (86m E-W; 85m N-S). A number of low lintelled entry points allow entry/exit of stock. A sheep pen is located within the interior (information from D. McCarthy 2016).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.