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
- 53.30483, -8.88473
- SMR number
- GA083-020----
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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
In low-lying undulating farmland. This poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (32m N-S; 29m E-W) is defined by a grassed-over stony bank. A possible house site (GA083-020001-) and a structure (GA083-020002-) lie within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 113, no. 14) A house (GA083-023----) lies c. 60m to the W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.