Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12516, -9.76577
- SMR number
- GA110-039030-
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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
During the course of research excavations in the SE area (Cutting 3) of the middle enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----) a largely man-made hollow (L 6m; Wth 5-7m), identified as F325, was uncovered. It was created by quarrying back into the terraced slope at the SE end of the enclosure. Vertical rock faces defined its S and W sides. The return of the SE side formed a footing for the enclosure wall for a distance of 0.9m at which point it turned E and disappeared in under the wall. The enclosure wall would have afforded the hollow protection from the easterly winds and it is likely that there was formerly a wall along the cliff edge to protect it from the south-westerly winds; however, no trace of the latter wall survives. Occupational deposits on the floor of the hollow, consisting of dispersed animal bone and charcoal flecks, continued in under the wall-face, indicating that it was hollowed out prior to the construction of the later phase of the enclosing wall (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 228-230).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 June 2020
References
Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- House - Iron Ageunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.