Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockdoebeg West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37848, -8.89538
- SMR number
- GA070-080001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pastureland. A low roughly circular earthwork (diam. 10m; H 1m). The famous battle of Knockdoe (see GA070-080----) took place in this area in 1504.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 7 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Battlefieldunder 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.