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
- 53.51178, -8.81714
- SMR number
- GA043-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in undulating grassland. A rectangular platform (WNW-ESE 22.1m, NNE-SSW 10.2m, H 2.3m) defined by a scarp. Along SSW, WNW and NNE sides are traces of a berm-like feature cut into the natural slope. A similar monument (GA043-013----) lies 150m to SE.
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.