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Enclosure

An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, An Carn Mór Thiar, 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
An Carn Mór Thiar
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30035, -8.88872
SMR number
GA083-080----

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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

In an area of pastureland and outcropping limestone sloping to the SW. The M6 motorway runs immediately to the S of the field in which the monument lies. This subcircular enclosure (40.2m N-S; 37.4m E-W) is not marked on the OS maps but it is clearly visible on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2oxnmh0 last accessed 29 March 2017) and it was previously noted by Sutton (2009, 187). It is defined by a bank of earth and stone (base Wth 3.2m; top Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.3m) from SW to N to SE. A small pit has been dug against its external face at N. At SE the bank is overgrown with thorn bushes and at SW it is defined by a broad tumbled spread of grass-covered boulders (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.24m; ext. H 0.26m). There is no visible trace of a fosse. The interior slopes steeply to the S. A hut site (GA083-080001-) is visible in the NW quadrant. Meandering field walls associated with a possible field system (GA083-80001-) extend off it at NE and SE. Another levelled field wall, running roughly N-S across the field, is visible immediately to its W. A concentric enclosure (GA083-079----) lies c. 85m to the NE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 29 March 2017

References

Sutton, B. 2009 Carnmore West: Cashel, souterrain and multi-phase kiln. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 187-88, No. 767. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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