Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Magheranearla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheranearla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17227, -8.20258
- SMR number
- GA108-180----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (c. 31m NW-SE) with a straight NW side (L c. 46m). On inspection in July 1984, apart from a low rise, no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline, indicated by a change in vegetation colour, is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial imagery (Google 2019). A later NNE-SSW running field boundary cuts through the E half of the site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.