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Enclosure

Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cruach Na Cara, 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
Cruach Na Cara
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30465, -9.91722
SMR number
GA076-020014-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

At the E end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island, c. 25m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-). This well-built subrectangular enclosure (20m E-W; 16m N-S) is constructed of large slabs of granite set on edge. The walls (max. H 1m; Wth 1m) are double faced with a rubble core and intermittent facing is visible along the N, E and S sides. A gap (Wth 2m) in the W wall may mark an entrance. Within the interior numerous boulders protruding from the ground appear to be grave-markers and it is likely that this is the burial ground (GA076-020002-) named, but not indicated, to the W of the church on the 1838 edition and 1899 resurvey of the OS 6-inch maps. Also in the S half of the enclosure there is a leacht (GA076-020010-), an associated cross-slab (GA076-020009-), ‘cursing stones’ (GA076-020026-), the socket of a cross (GA076-020016-) and the shaft of a possible cross (GA076-020028-).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 6 June 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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