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
- 53.30000, -8.36600
- SMR number
- GA087-197----
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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 level grassland, it is skirted to E and S by a road. A. poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 70m, N-S 65m) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m max.) except from WSW to WNW where slight traces of a bank are discernible. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element at N.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.