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Enclosure

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Eoghanacht, 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
Eoghanacht
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.14597, -9.77797
SMR number
GA110-010005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Two sections of walling are visible (a) to the W of the cross-slab (GA110-023013-) and (b) c. 2m to the W of Teampall Bhreacáin/Temple Brecan (GA110-010001-). Gateways survive in both walls, that in the W wall (L c. 5m) is capped with a simple flat lintel, while that in E wall (L 12.6m; H 2m) has a two-piece round-headed arch. Waddell (1973, 7, Fig. 1) suggests that from the position of the gateways the function of the walling was simply to enclose both Leaba on Spioraid Naoimh (GA110-023002-) and Leaba Bhreacáin (GA110-023001-).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 8 March 2016

References

Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.

Nearby in the register

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

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