Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oran More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oran More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26169, -8.93564
- SMR number
- GA095-113----
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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
Indicated on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as an irregularly shaped enclosure. On inspection in December 1982 this was an area of scrubland and rock outcrop. The poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) was defined by a low wall of large set limestone blocks, double-faced at S (Wth 1.4m; max. H 0.8m). A partially collapsed modern field wall overlay the enclosing element. Current OSi aerial imagery (Google Earth 2018) indicates that area of the site is now a green in a fairly recently constructed housing estate and it appears that the enclosure has been levelled.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 14 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.