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Enclosure

Castle Ffrench,Ballyvoneen (Kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Castle Ffrench, Ballyvoneen, 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
Castle Ffrench,Ballyvoneen (Kilconnell By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.45948, -8.37154
SMR number
GA047-017001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · 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

In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved irregular enclosure (E-W >116m, N-S 115m) defined by an inner bank, intervening fosse and outer bank. The monument is cut from N to S by the Ahascragh-Ballygar road and no visible surface trace survives to W of it. The inner bank survives from N through E to SSE and is best preserved from ESE to SSE: a large pit lies immediately outside it in this sector. The fosse and outer bank survive from N to NE. There are a number of low banks in the interior, possibly representing internal divisions, and a modern field wall cuts through S half on a SE-SW axis. A private burial ground (GA047-017002-) overlies the inner bank at SE. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 46 (GA046-033----).

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

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

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