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
- 53.31073, -8.26804
- SMR number
- GA087-178----
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
On E face of a ridge in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (N-S 28m, E-W 17m) defined by a bank from SW through N to SE. A gap (Wth 4m) at N could be original. A depression runs from N through E to SE along the inner face of the bank. Irregular mounds and hollows are evident outside the enclosure at E and 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.