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Enclosure

Mountain South, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Mountain South, 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
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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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

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

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

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