Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (beagh Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (beagh Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.06764, -8.84372
- SMR number
- GA122-118----
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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 mixed pasture and scrubland. Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; partially levelled on the 1922 edition. On inspection in September 1982 all that survived were the poorly preserved remains of an enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a wall footing of massive stones from NE through E to WSW. At WSW the wall dog-legged and ran WNW to meet a modern drystone wall curving from WNW to NE. The latter wall, which may have mirrored the outline of the earlier wall, formed part of the enclosing wall surrounding a tree copse to the NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.