Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Carn Mór Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31277, -8.90272
- SMR number
- GA083-015002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope in grassland. This subrectangular enclosure (50m N-S; 43.5m E-W), in fair
condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A scarp forms the inner enclosing element along the E side. The fosse survives from SW through N to NE and is for the most part filled with field-clearance rubble. The outer bank survives only along the N side. A burial ground (GA083-015001-) occupies the NE quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 112, no. 8; de hÓra 1991)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
References
de hÓra, K. 1991 Archaeological assessment report Carnmore West burial ground. Carnmore, Co. Galway. Unpublished report, Galway County Council.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.