Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynalacka, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynalacka
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45271, -9.13284
- SMR number
- GA055-018----
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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 top of a low knoll in undulating farmland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). The monument has been destroyed due to the construction of a silage slab, feeding unit and milking parlour, but a curving modern field wall may overlie the original enclosing element from SE through S to SW. No visible surface trace survives of the 'Cave' (probable souterrain) (GA055-018001-) indicated on OS 6-inch maps near the centre of the monument.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.