Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coole Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coole Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08512, -8.84283
- SMR number
- GA122-141----
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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
On a natural rise in woodland in Coole Demesne. This oval enclosure (33m N-S; 28m E-W) is defined by a well-preserved and very well-built moss-covered stone wall (int. H 1.85m; ext. H 1.25; Wth 2.0m). It is breached by gaps at S (Wth 4m) and SSW (Wth 2m) as well as a V-shaped gap (basal Wth 0.5m; overall Wth 2.5m) at NNE. Other small intermittent breaches are due to fallen trees. The interior, which is covered with trees, slopes down very distinctively in the N sector, toward the NNE. There is also a very gradual slope from the centre, towards the SW. Collapsed field walls radiate from the external wall-face at E and W. There is a woodland trackway 10m to the W. Possibly of post-medieval date. Known as the 'Bull Ring' (pers. comm. Dr E. Mooney).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 28 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.