Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Gortnacullia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacullia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03661, -8.89586
- SMR number
- GA128-054----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 flat pasture and scrubland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 72m int.) defined by a low bank that is surrounded by a modern field wall. A gap occurs at SSW. A field wall cuts across the monument from N to ESE and the area to the NE of it is densely overgrown with trees.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.