Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Treanlaur, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanlaur
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24228, -8.95176
- SMR number
- GA095-147----
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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 ridge in pastureland. Described by Holt (1912, 225) as a 'large rath', which was located on the 'N.W. shoulder of a considerable hill'. It consists of a poorly preserved hilltop enclosure (69.8m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse with slight traces of an outer bank from SE to S. A possible souterrain (GA095-147001-) is associated. (McCaffrey 1952, 147. no. 18a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 July 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.