Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Friarsland, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarsland
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17491, -8.08499
- SMR number
- GA108-124003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Some 20m to the W of an enclosure (GA109-021). This low grassed-over subcircular mound (32 N-S; 27m E-W; H c. 1m) is surrounded from SW through N to SE by slight traces of a fosse (Wth 4-5m) which is overgrown with thistles and marshy underfoot.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.