Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24681, -8.23122
- SMR number
- GA099-180----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosed roughly triangular-shaped
tree plantation; a N-S running roadway lies immediately to the W. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) the enclosing wall is subcircular in plan, curving from NNW through E to S, and hachures are depicted off the wall from NE to S. On the 1946-7 revision of the 6-inch map only a line of hachures is shown curving from NNE to S; all the trees have been cleared away. On inspection in April 1983 only a natural mound of no archaeological significance was noted. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was most likely a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.