Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Doorus, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doorus
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17589, -8.96965
- SMR number
- GA102-047----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland at the NW tip of Kinvarra Bay and overlooking Cragnagh Island to the NW. A faint cropmark of a possible enclosure (c. 55m NE-SW), roughly pentagonal in shape, is visible Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated 7/3/2018). It was identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA102-047----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 7/3/2018
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.