Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doonaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38813, -8.64891
- SMR number
- GA072-033----
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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 gentle rise in farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 30m). On 3rd ed. (1932), the words 'Burial Ground' have been appended. What survives is a subcircular area (E-W 60m) bounded by a modern stone wall, the interior of which is still in use as a graveyard. The S part of the original enclosure is now occupied by a carpark.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.