Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Sawnagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sawnagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.09486, -8.29575
- SMR number
- GA126-071----
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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
In pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular field (c. 48m NW-SE; c. 43m NE-SW) with an external line of bushes along each side of it. A NE-SE roadway ran roughly across the centre of the interior and the area to the SE of it was completely planted with bushes. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) the field wall is surrounded by a fosse or ditch (max. Wth c. 6m) and all the bushes have been cleared away. On inspection in February 1984 all that was visible on the ground was a low platform defined by a slight scarp that was barely identifiable around the N half of the monument. The N half of the interior was under tillage while the S half was under pasture. A lot of field boundaries in the area had been recently cleared. A local person regarded the monument as a ‘fort’ but had no recollection of what it looked like. Its outline is clearly visible on Google aerial photographs (Google 2018, last accessed 21 September 2018).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 21 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.