Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinlass (castleffrench Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlass (castleffrench Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48698, -8.34179
- SMR number
- GA047-001----
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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 grassland within the former demesne of Ballinglass House, overlooking Ballinglass Lough to W. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, its perimeter planted with trees. All that survives is poorly preserved circular platform (D 39m) defined by a degraded scarp (H 0.5m max.) except at W where the line of the enclosure in overlain by a field boundary.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.