Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
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
- 53.23077, -8.22567
- SMR number
- GA100-045----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
On a rise in undulating grassland, formerly part of Belview demesne. Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map an enclosed tree plantation. On the 1946 revision the interior is clear of trees. It is consists of a poorly preserved oval enclosure (57m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.5-2.3m; D 0.1-0.15m). Most likely a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Cenotaphunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.