Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Montpelier, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Montpelier
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34103, -8.71838
- SMR number
- GA071-071----
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 level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (36.5m E-W; 33.7m N-S) defined by a
degraded bank. A shallow hollow (L c. 14m; Wth c. 6m) is evident in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.