Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Henge
Killeen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisglass
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisglass
- Coordinates
- 53.15229, -8.29675
- SMR number
- GA117-049----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in hilly grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 70m N-S; c. 68m E-W) clipped by a N-S running field boundary at NNE and SSE; partially levelled by the time of the 1947 edition. All that survives is the arc of a low bank from W to N, directly inside of which is a shallow but wide fosse (Wth 4m); otherwise no visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA117-049001-) lies within SE sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.