Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glenafelly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenafelly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06446, -7.70508
- SMR number
- OF039-015----
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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
Located on the E facing slope of rising ground in mountainous region. One of a group of five circular enclosures (OF039-015001/002/003/004-) that are indicated on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Not indicated on the first two editions of the 6-inch map. These enclosures are not indicated as an antiquity and may be landscape features of post-1700 AD date. Present site consists of a circular enclosure (diam. 24m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and deep outer fosse which has a V-shaped profile with no evidence of any entrance feature. The interior of the site slopes from W to E. Four of these enclosures still survive intact with the fifth one destroyed by a modern forestry road. The four surviving enclosures are located in modern forrestry and are now inaccesible.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.