Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ceathrú An Chaisleáin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Chaisleáin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37943, -9.01041
- SMR number
- GA069-013003-
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
In flat marshy land, 30m E of Cloonboo Castle (GA069-013001-). A rectangular enclosure (NW-SE 94m, NE-SW 67m max.), in fair condition, defined by a silted up fosse (Wth 1.4m) and an external earthen bank (Wth 3m, H 1.2m). The bank is overlain along E, S and W sides by later field walls. A gap (Wth 6.5m) at NE, though modern in appearance, may mark the site of the original entrance. The interior is flat and is now subdivided into three by later field walls.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.