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Enclosure

Lurgan More, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lurgan More, 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
Lurgan More
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.20034, -8.31651
SMR number
GA107-150----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 rise in grassland overlooking bogland to the N. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW). On inspection in April 1984 no visible surface trace survived. However, slight traces of its outline are visible on OSi aerial imagery (Google maps).

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 17 April 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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