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Enclosure

Kilcornan (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Kilcornan, 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
Kilcornan (Dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23939, -8.86392
SMR number
GA095-054----

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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 S-facing slope of a hillock in pastureland. This heavily overgrown and poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (c. 55m E-W; c. 46m N-S) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 0.9m; base Wth 6m; int. H 2.4m; ext. H 2.5m) is best preserved along the W side. Later causeways cross it along the S side and at the SW and NW corners. The fosse (Wth 1.6m) is filled with rubble. The outer bank (base Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) is also best preserved along the W side, though field rubble is packed against its outer face. A field wall overlies it along the N side and it is much denuded along the E and S sides. The interior is divided by a N-S running field wall. A structure (GA095-054001-) is evident in the NE quadrant. (Redington 1912, 172-4; Westropp 1919, 176-7; McCaffrey 1952, 134, no. 41)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 2 April 2019

References

Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.

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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.

Nearby in the register

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

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