Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Knocktoby, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocktoby
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98392, -8.86871
- SMR number
- GA133-011----
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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 slight E-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a possible enclosure (diam. c. 47m) defined by curving field boundaries. On inspection in May 1992 no visible surface trace survived as the area had been cleared during land reclamation works. However, the outline of its W half is visible on the OSi digitialglobe aerial photograph. It was possibly a circular field. The evidence is insufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.