Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Killoran (clonfert Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran (clonfert Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22235, -8.07206
- SMR number
- GA101-018----
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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 level pastureland, c. 50m to the N of a stream and 75m to the N of the townland boundary. On inspection in October 1984 this poorly preserved oval enclosure (95m NW-SE; 72m NE-SW) was defined by a bank, overlain by a later field wall, from SE to SSW, and by a low earthen scarp from SSW to NW. An external fosse was visible from SSE through W to N. A roughly NW-SE running field boundary bisected the site. There was a depression in the S sector of the interior, to the SE of which there was a small graveyard (GA101-018001-). When coupled with the townland name and the proximity of townland boundary, its presence suggested that the enclosure was ecclesiastical in character. Current OSi aerial photography indicates that the field wall overlying the bank from SE to SSW has been removed.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.