Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Alloon Lower,lisgub West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Alloon Lower,lisgub West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39333, -8.47212
- SMR number
- GA073-167----
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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 pastureland. The cropmark of this subcircular enclosure (c. 84m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated March 2018). A modern field boundary runs across it from NNW to SSE. Another field boundary, running roughly N-S, extends off this and cuts across the enclosing element at approximately NNW. Identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA073-167----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 20 March 2018.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.