Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tristaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28460, -8.28246
- SMR number
- GA087-215----
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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 hummock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 27.5, N-S 24m) defined by a degraded bank, and delimited at NE and ESE by a modern drain. A small rectangular annexe (N-S 8.5m, E-W 7m) extends from the bank 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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.