Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shanclogh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanclogh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13104, -9.00402
- SMR number
- GA112-042----
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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
In an area of outcropping limestone and rough pasture. What appeared to be a possible enclosure/cashel on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection to be a roughly subcircular enclosure (c. 55m E-W; c. 45m N-S) defined by a single drystone wall breached by several poreens. The interior was divided into a number of small animal pens. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at S opened on to a narrow laneway. The circular nature of the enclosure is striking as noted on an aerial photograph (GASAP Roll 243: 29), suggesting that it may have been built on the line of an earlier enclosure or cashel. The current OSI digitalglobe aerial photograph (March 2012) indicates that the area has since been reclaimed and that the enclosure has been levelled; however, its outline is still visible.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.