Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Ballynacorra (ffrench), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacorra (ffrench)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52319, -8.40003
- SMR number
- GA032-004----
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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
In pastureland. A roughly subrectangular hachured feature (NNW-SSE c. 20m; E-W c. 11m) marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pit defined by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.