Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carnaun (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaun (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33298, -8.78517
- SMR number
- GA084-156----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 pastureland. The cropmark of this subcircular enclosure (c. 84m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated March 2018). A modern field boundary runs across it from NNW to SSE. Another field boundary, running roughly N-S, extends off this and cuts across the enclosing element at approximately NNW. Identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA073-167----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 16 March 2011.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.