Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garbally Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garbally Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknagreana Forts
- Coordinates
- 53.32108, -8.27428
- SMR number
- GA087-069----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1945-6) as a roughly oval enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 30m). The monument has been levelled and all that survives is a denuded subcircular area (E-W 50m, N-S 46m). According to local information, this was the site of a 'rath' which was cleared just recently.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.