Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killure Castle, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.