Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castle Ellen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Ellen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33870, -8.76342
- SMR number
- GA084-054----
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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 undulating pastureland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a subcircular enclosure (c. 24m E-W; c. 20m N-S). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.