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Enclosure

Garrynamishaun Or Aughrim Plots,Kilcommadan, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Garrynamishaun Or Aughrim Plots, Kilcommadan, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garrynamishaun Or Aughrim Plots,Kilcommadan
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.29079, -8.32070
SMR number
GA087-092----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On S flank of Aughrim Hill. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1945-6) as a line of hachures curving from SE to WSW and cut by field boundaries at SE and WSW. What survives are the very poorly preserved overgrown remains of an enclosure (E-W c. 35m, N-S>25m) defined by a degraded scarp/bank and external fosse curving from SE to through S to WNW. Slight traces of an outer bank (L c. 6m) are also visible at S.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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