Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowmore (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knocknahoon Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknahoon Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.25938, -8.51270
- SMR number
- GA098-064----
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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 level marshy grassland surrounded by a stream. This rectangular enclosure (32.9m NE-SW; 21.7m NW-SE), in fair condition, is defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument along the S and W sides. A bank and fosse run NW for 3.5m to the W of the enclosure and a series of rectangular earthworks, possibly associated, lie to the NW and SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 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.