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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Derryhiveny North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Derryhiveny North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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