Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battlefield
Knockdoebeg East,knockdoebeg West,knockdoemore (lackaghbeg Ed),lackagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg East,knockdoebeg West,knockdoemore (lackaghbeg Ed),lackagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knocktuagh alias Knockdoe ...
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocktuagh alias Knockdoe
- Coordinates
- 53.37820, -8.89500
- SMR number
- GA070-080----
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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 N-facing slope in scrubland. Described on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as the 'Site of Battle fought by the Lord Deputy against the Earl of Clanrickard in 1504' (see O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 217-22). The same map also depicts a small circular enclosure (GA070-080001-) visible as a low circular mound (D 10m, H 1m). According to tradition, the battle was fought between this hill and Turloughmore, 1.5km to ENE, and 'some musquet balls, and one cannon ball, was found on the side of the hill' (Holt 1910, 135).
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.