Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortnamannagh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnamannagh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15737, -8.65010
- SMR number
- GA115-026----
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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 an E-facing slope in rough grassland. Poorly preserved irregular enclosure (60m N-S) defined by an earthen bank. Traces of an external fosse are visible intermittently.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.