Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cappaghcon East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappaghcon East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.07922, -8.42511
- SMR number
- GA125-027----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle E-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (c. 58m N-S; c. 52m E-W) defined by a scarp from WSW through N to ENE. A field wall cuts across the monument from WSW to ENE and to the SE of it the former line of the enclosing element is indicated by a darker band of vegetation .
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.