Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Caherglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11638, -8.88014
- SMR number
- GA113-059----
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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 a NE-facing slope in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved and heavily overgrown subrectangular enclosure (c. 97m NE-SW; c. 76m NW-SE) is defined by a drystone wall which is traceable only as a low stony mound incorporated into the present field boundaries. The interior is subdivided by a number of field walls and it is densely overgrown with briars and thorn bushes.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.