Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mulroog West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mulroog West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17790, -8.92614
- SMR number
- GA103-155----
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 undulating pastureland. Well-preserved rectangular enclosure (46m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a drystone wall. A modern laneway which borders the monument at N encroaches upon it in NE quadrant. (McCaffrey 1952, 201, no. 122)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.