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Enclosure

Abbeyland Great, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Abbeyland Great, 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
Abbeyland Great
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.21872, -8.10023
SMR number
GA108-246----

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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

In pastureland. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 43m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dating from March 2015. A roughly N-S running drain cut through its E limits. Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.

The following image has been uploaded: GA108-246-----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2015)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 20 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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