Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Cuscarrick, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuscarrick
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19251, -8.60315
- SMR number
- GA105-076----
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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
On a glacial ridge W of Lough Rea. This poorly preserved large enclosure (int. diam. 72m) is defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1-1.4m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 0.25-c. 1m) from SE through W to N; only the foundation courses survive. In the E sector the wall is almost completely indefinable. The interior is very irregular and a children's burial ground (GA105-076001-) it located in the NE quadrant. A NNW-SSE running field wall clips the monument at W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.