Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loughbown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughbown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31575, -8.27216
- SMR number
- GA087-172----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (N-S 54m, E-W 49m) defined by a bank from WNW through N to ENE, and elsewhere by a scarp which is overlain from SSE to SW by a field boundary. An external fosse is best preserved from N to E. Traces of an outer bank survive from NNE to ENE. A N-S running field boundary cuts through the monument to W of centre. A series of earthworks, possibly associated, lie immediately to W.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.