Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Turoe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turoe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25210, -8.55674
- SMR number
- GA097-154----
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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 pastureland, formerly part of Turoe demesne. Indicated on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular tree-planted enclosure (diam. c. 23m). No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests that it was a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Stone sculpture - aniconic (present location)under 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.