Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Abbeyland Great, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland Great
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21302, -8.11916
- SMR number
- GA108-005----
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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 S-facing slope in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam.
c. 29m) defined by a slight traces of a low earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m). According to local information, the monument was levelled in the mid 1930s.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.