Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Burroge (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burroge (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16286, -8.58509
- SMR number
- GA115-012----
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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 W-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1929 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 12m). No visible surface trace survives. A modern outbuilding occupies all or part of the site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.