Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilchreest, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilchreest
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18195, -8.65421
- SMR number
- GA105-119----
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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 low-lying pastureland surrounded by bogland to the W, N and E. This roughly pear-shaped mound (37m N-S; H 3.75), in fair condition, is surrounded by a fosse and bank from SW to NNW. The mound is raised considerably above the level of the bank. A children's burial ground (GA105-119001-) lies within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 258, no. 22)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.