Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballynew (Ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynew (Ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57242, -10.08079
- SMR number
- GA009-025----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In cutaway bog on a generally N-facing slope overlooking the mouth of Ballynakill Harbour. A series of pre-bog walls whose long axes, running NW-SE and NE-SW, appear to form a pattern of large rectangular fields. They cover an area c. 500m E-W by 400m N-S. Construction varies from loose stone to boulders revetting a rubble core. (Gibbons and Higgins 1988d, 65)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.