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Enclosure

Kilcaimin,Seafield, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilcaimin, Seafield, 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
Kilcaimin,Seafield
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24128, -8.93542
SMR number
GA095-052001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 the N-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 133, no. 19a) as
a rectangular ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 61.2m E-W; c. 30.4m N-S) which was defined along the N side by a slightly curving bank and external fosse and along E and W sides by a scarp. The S end of the monument merged with the hillside. At S end of the interior, a raised inner platform (27.4m N-S; 18.3m E-W) was evident, which also merged into the hillside. Traces of an irregular curving bank were also evident beyond the scarp on the E side. Holt (1912, 243) referred to the ‘vague tradition of a castle [GA095-052002-] here’ and noted the strategic location of the site. No visible surface trace survives.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 1 April 2019

References

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Holt, E.W.L. 1910 An abridged transcript of the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to parishes in, or partly in, the Barony of Dunkellin Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 6, 123-69.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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