Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Addergoole (Ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Addergoole (Ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54785, -9.90375
- SMR number
- GA023-047----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 an area of heather-covered cutaway bogland in the Connemara National Park and located on a small plateau/promontory overlooking the Polladirk River to the E and Diamond Hill to the W. This possible house site (int. dims. 6.7m E-W; 3.1m N-S), rectangular in plan, is defined by rubble-built walls on the S, W and N sides. The S wall (Wth 0.75m; H c. 0.5m) is best preserved; that on the W side is difficult to define due to wall collapse and the N wall appears to be beneath a turf bank. The bank defining the E side appears to be the natural slope of the hill which falls steeply away from the site. A gap (Wth c. 1m) in the S wall may mark the doorway; its E side is clearly defined by a boulder. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
The following images have been uploaded:
GA023-047----_01 N wall.jpg
GA023-047----_02 S wall.jpg
GA023-047----_03 E side of gap in S wall.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 7 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.