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Hilltop enclosure

Drumminacloghaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hilltop enclosure, Drumminacloghaun, 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
Drumminacloghaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.06010, -8.83924
SMR number
GA122-078----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 mixed farmland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a large subcircular enclosure (c. 77m NE-SW; c. 75m NE-SW) with a wide gap at SW. On inspection in September 1982 no visible surface trace was visible and a silage pit was evident in the interior. However, on the OSi digitalglobe AP the cropmark outline of the enclosure is clearly visible as a darker band of vegetation. A large shed now also occupies the interior.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 14 December 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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