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Enclosure

Killure Castle, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Killure Castle, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killure Castle
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.36126, -8.29848
SMR number
GA074-071----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In flat grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as a large circular bivallate enclosure (D c. 90m) skirted by a laneway from W to NW: a small roofed rectangular building is shown on its perimeter at WSW. The monument has been almost completely levelled as a result of field clearance. From W to N, a curving earthen field boundary may represent the last vestiges of the inner bank. Otherwise, the line of the enclosing element is indicated only by a slight rise in the field level. Tentative traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank survive from N to E and at SE, indicated by a wide shallow depression and a second low rise respectively. A low ride (E-W c. 28m) is visible within 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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