Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Derryhiveny North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryhiveny North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.13476, -8.19560
- SMR number
- GA118-029001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating pastureland. This large subcircular enclosure (160m N-S; 110m E-W) is defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. A modern farmhouse and associated outbuildings occupy its NE quadrant and here the enclosing elements have been levelled from N to E. A semicircular enclosure (diam. c. 10m), defined by a low bank, abuts the inner face of the bank at E; it may be a later feature. A modern driveway cutting through the interior at W accesses the farmhouse and there is a bullaun stone (GA118-029002-) adjacent to its E wall. The large size of the enclosure, when coupled with the presence of the bullaun and a townland boundary immediately to its W, suggest that it may be an early ecclesiastical enclosure. An earthwork (GA118-023----) lies c. 120m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.