Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Frenchfort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchfort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27616, -8.90873
- SMR number
- GA095-033----
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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 a low hillock in marshland, c. 10m to the S of a stream. This poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 8m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone which encloses a sunken interior. A pathway cuts across the monument from NW to SE and quarrying has encroached upon it at W. The arc of a low bank (L 6m), possibly associated, lies 9m to the N. McCaffrey (1952, 129-30, no. 57a) classified the monument as a ‘Hut circle’ but it could also be a barrow.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.