Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kiltiernan East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltiernan East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dunebestan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunebestan
- Coordinates
- 53.17912, -8.83851
- SMR number
- GA103-141----
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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 level reclaimed farmland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (int. diam. 5.1m; max. diam. 13.5m) defined by a grassed-over bank of earth and stone except at NE where it has been levelled. Field-clearance rubble has been piled within the interior. McCaffrey (1952, 198, no. 65) noted an external fosse along W side; no visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.