Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.