Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballymoat, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymoat
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51046, -8.82062
- SMR number
- GA043-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in undulating grassland. A roughly circular steep-sided earthen mound (D c. 21m, H 2.5m), in fair condition, surrounded by a fosse. The latter is best preserved from S to NNW but is only barely visible elsewhere. On the flat summit are traces of a subcircular structure (D c. 2.6m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall. A hollow (D c. 1.6m) in its interior may be due to recent disturbance. Possibly a barrow or a folly/landscape feature.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.