Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derrybrien East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybrien East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06315, -8.59739
- SMR number
- GA124-004----
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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
On a S-facing slope in marshy grassland, overlooking the Owendalulleegh River. This poorly preserved oval enclosure (63m E-W; 42m N-S) is defined by a scarp. It is overlain by a field boundary at NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.