Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Killeenhugh,lisheeneenaun East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenhugh,lisheeneenaun East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15692, -8.87668
- SMR number
- GA113-132001-
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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
On a gentle rise in an area of outcropping limestone and undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 275, no. 17) as a circular 'Enclosure' (diam. c. 40.5m) defined by 'one ring of rough blocks' with a 'structure' (c. 8.2m by c. 7.7m) composed 'of a single row of boulders' on the inner face of the wall at S. Due to land reclamation in the area no visible surface trace of either feature survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 September 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.