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Earthwork

Urraghry, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Urraghry, 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
Urraghry
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.29765, -8.27207
SMR number
GA087-227----

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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 a ridge running E-W, 150m S of the Ballinure River. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure immediately SE of a tree-planted garden or orchard, while on 3rd ed. (1946) it is shown as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 50m by c. 40m). What survives is a low grass-covered oval stony mound (E-W 17m, N-S 9m, H 1.5 max.), centrally placed within a roughly circular area (D 19m) defined by a low scarp. A causeway (L 21m, Wth 7m) leads off from it to E along the ridge. Traces of a curving bank/scarp are also visible at the base of the ridge from NW through N to E, and from SE through S to SSW. Possibly a landscape feature or a landscaped barrow.

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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