Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killure Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killure Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36690, -8.29954
- SMR number
- GA074-069003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying pastureland. This possible ecclesiastical enclosure is clearly visible on aerial photographs (see https://binged.it/2gnEqYe last accessed 30 August 2017). It is roughly subcircular in plan (c. 99m NNE-SSW; c. 92m E-W) and a N-S running field boundary cuts through its E limits. When the associated church (GA074-069001-) and children's burial ground (GA074-069002-) within its interior were inspected in March 1985, only tentatives traces of it were noted. A very poorly preserved earthen bank was noted c. 46m to the N of the church. It was very degraded and reached a maximum height of 0.2m. It was not possible to determine its width as its limits were impossible to determine accurately from the ground. On the aerial photograph the entire outline of the enclosure is visible.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.