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Earthwork

Ballinderry (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballinderry, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinderry (Clare By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.46360, -8.83531
SMR number
GA043-004004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Surrounding ‘Ballinderry Castle’ (GA043-004001-). The castle stood along the N edge of a rectangular platform (E-W 27m, N-S 25m) defined by a scarp, which may have marked the line of an associated bawn (GA043-004002-). Noted directly outside the scarp, along the E side, were two parallel banks and fosses running N-S. These are also evident for 40m to the NE of the platform, where they terminate in a circular earthwork (D 7.5m int.) defined by two low banks and an intervening fosse. Two parallel scarps are visible running off this earthwork from its W side, on a WSW-ENE axis, while two linear banks and an intervening fosse also extend off its NW side, following a NW-SE axis. While the circular earthwork is quite similar in form to a barrow, the earthworks as a whole could be interpreted as the outline of an outer bawn with a circular turret at its NE angle.

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).

Edited by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 11 November 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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