Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynagittagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagittagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57109, -8.98460
- SMR number
- GA015-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle W-facing slope in undulating grassland. A poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 27.7m, N-S 26m) defined by the foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 0.95m), except from E to S where a series of low mounds form the enclosing element. It is best preserved from S to SSW. Field walls abut the monument at NW, NNE and S. In the large field to SW, a series of low grassed-over stony banks, covering an area c. 100m sq., form several small rectangular and irregular fields; possibly associated.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.