Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
An Carn Mór Thiar,Carnmore,Palmerstown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Carn Mór Thiar,Carnmore,Palmerstown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29976, -8.86762
- SMR number
- GA083-008----
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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
On a hillock in grassland. Marked only on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m); a field boundary ran through it from SSE to SSW. No visible surface trace survives. The M6 motorway runs E-W c. 30m to its N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.