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Enclosure

Gortymadden, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Gortymadden, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortymadden
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.19801, -8.40436
SMR number
GA106-168----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP
376:57A) revealed the presence of two poorly preserved contiguous enclosures situated at the intersection of three linear banks. The E enclosure (GA106-168001-), D-shaped in plan (diam. 21m), is defined by a low curving bank from S through N to E and by a straight bank, which is partially obscured by rubble, from E to S. The W enclosure (GA106-168----; diam. 20m) appears to abut the E enclosure at N. It is defined by two low banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse curving from SSW through W to N; elsewhere no visible surface trace survives.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 28 July 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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