Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Knocknacarragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacarragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25493, -9.11168
- SMR number
- GA093-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Gentian Hill, a prominent drumlin jutting out into Galway Bay. Very poorly preserved large subcircular enclosure (D c. 140m) defined by a bank of earth and loose stone from E to SE; no surface traces are visible elsewhere. (GBCAS Files; CUCAP APF, 90)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.