Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Hampstead, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hampstead
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.39344, -8.51955
- SMR number
- GA073-089----
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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 scrubland, on NW boundary of the former demesne of Hampstead House. A poorly preserved and partially overgrown circular enclosure (D 28m) cut by a field wall at NE and SW. To NW of the wall, it is defined a bank and fosse curving from SW through N to NE; no visible surface trace survives to SE. Numerous breaches in the bank appear modern, and there is a hollow in W half of 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.