Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Belview Or Lissareaghaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belview Or Lissareaghaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24265, -8.20538
- SMR number
- GA100-033----
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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
On a N-facing slope in gently undulating pastureland. When inspected in January 1985 this poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 44m), known locally as a ‘fort’, was defined by a bank (base Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.25-0.3m; ext. H 1m) from ENE through S to NW and by a scarp from NW to ENE. A gap at SW appeared to be modern. Several mature trees were growing on the bank and disturbed sections of the enclosing element appeared to be the result of the uprooting of some of the trees. The current OSi aerial imagery indicates that the trees have since been removed from the monument. Possibly a rath that was subsequently reused as a tree-ring enclosure.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.