Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newcastle (aughrim Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (aughrim Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.29827, -8.38996
- SMR number
- GA086-199----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as a large circular platform (D c. 70) with a spur-like feature, slightly hollow in the centre, shown projecting from it at S. What survives is a roughly oval enclosure (NNE-SSW 79.5m, WNW-ESE 59m) defined by a low degraded scarp. This is best defined from NW to N (H 0.8m) but is much degraded elsewhere, and completely quarried out from SSW to W. From SSE to SSW, the scarp veers off sharply to S, forming the spur-like projection mentioned above; this is up to 2m in height at one point. A mass rock lies c. 90m to SE.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.