Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kinmona South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinmona South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12723, -8.77474
- SMR number
- GA114-108003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Some 145m to the W of an enclosure (GA114-108001-). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 284, no. 99) as a circular 'Enclosure' (diam. c. 33.5m) defined by 'one ring of boulders'. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.