Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountain South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountain South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27644, -8.73608
- SMR number
- GA096-134----
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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
In rocky pastureland. Marked as a D-shaped field on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; on the 1933 edition it is more irregular in outline. Described by Cody (1989, 299-300, no. 123) as a subcircular enclosure (49m E-W; 43m N-S) defined by a grassed-over stony bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.5m) with short stretches of drystone walling at NE and NW. A rectangular annexe (14m E-W; 10m N-S) defined by a low grassed-over bank abutted it at E and a farm trackway cut across it from E to W. Cody (ibid.) was unsure of the date of the enclosure but noted the possibility that it might have been a cashel. It was removed between 1977 and 1983 in the course of land reclamation. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.