Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherpeak West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherpeak West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19772, -8.86494
- SMR number
- GA103-072001-
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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 undulating pastureland and rock outcrop. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as line of hachures curving from N to SSE (C c. 30m). When inspected in 1969 it was described it as a substantial drystone enclosure with no proper inner or outer wall faces, suggesting the possibility that it might be a sheepfold (SMR file). When revisited in 1992 the area has been extensively cleared and no visible surface trace survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.