Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garraun North (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun North (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29308, -8.94579
- SMR number
- GA083-036003-
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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
Associated with a moated site (GA083-036001-). Lynch Athy (1913-14, 165-6) recorded ‘another square enclosure’ which was located ‘beyond the ditch [of the moated site] but running up to its bank’. It was plainly visible ‘though only marked in the field by a low bank’. No visible surface trace of it was evident on inspection in September 1983. However, a levelled enclosure (c. 33m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NNW-SSE) is visible on aerial photographs (Google maps 2018, last accessed 27 November 2018) extending off the NW side of the moated site. It is most likely that this is the enclosure to which Lynch Athy (ibid.) was referring. A possible cashel (GA083-072----) also recorded to the W of it by Lynch Athy (ibid.) remains unlocated.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 27 November 2018
References
Lynch Athy, M. 1914 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the Barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway: IV - Oranmore Parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 129-98.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.