Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06460, -9.50922
- SMR number
- GA120-036----
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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
In sand-dunes close to seashore in NE part of island. Known locally as An Poirín Buí, it consisted of a small circular enclosure (D c. 10m), half-buried in sand and defined by a drystone wall. Used locally as a marker for the boundary between the subdivisions of Baile an Chasleáin and Baile Fhormina. Possibly equatable with (GA120-007006-), but now obliterated by the airstrip (info. T. Robinson).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.