Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knocknaboley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaboley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29263, -8.51465
- SMR number
- GA086-183----
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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
On W end of a glacial ridge in grassland. A very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 40m, E-W 33.8m) cut by a road from NNW to SSE. To E of road the bank is extant; on W side a scarp delimits the monument. An irregular mound and two depressions lie within E half of the interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.