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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15230, -8.79774
- SMR number
- GA114-064----
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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 hillock in pastureland, formerly part of Cregaclare Demesne. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 45m) delimited by a broken line. Listed by McCaffrey (1952, 282, no. 24) as an ‘Earthen fort (?)’. The area is now covered with scrub and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.