Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Caherglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10568, -8.87962
- SMR number
- GA122-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland overlooking Caherglassaun Lough to the S. Marked on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 27m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. A tower house (GA122-029----) lies c. 90m to the NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.