Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cregaclare Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregaclare Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15984, -8.79666
- SMR number
- GA114-061----
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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 rolling pastureland, formerly part of Creggaclare Demesne. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as an irregular tree-filled enclosure. It is defined by an irregular bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) and the interior has been disturbed by digging and the felling of trees. Though classified by McCaffrey (1952, 282, no. 6a) as amuch-denuded oval ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 41m N-S; c. 32m E-W), the monument may be a landscape feature associated with the demesne.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.