Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowholla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowholla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35040, -8.49024
- SMR number
- GA073-035----
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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 natural rise in marshy land prone to flooding. A poorly preserved irregular enclosure (E-W c. 30m, N-S c 20m) defined by a bank which survives at W and N. A later earthen field wall appears to overlie the bank from N to NE. From SE to SW, the monument has been destroyed as a result of the construction of a farmhouse. Traces of an almost levelled field wall, running from E to W, are visible within the interior.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.