Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Leagh South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leagh South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Greencolly Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Greencolly Fort (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.12568, -9.02637
- SMR number
- GA112-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the summit of a hill right on the Galway-Clare county boundary. Marked on the 1838 edition of the 1st OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 60m N-S) opening onto a cliff edge to the W. Evidently levelled by the time of the 1922 edition of the map when the words ‘(Site of)’ are appended. No visible surface trace
survives. A small cairn of boulders, most likely a trigonometrical cairn, occupies the site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.