Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
Ballybrone, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrone
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.40266, -8.84110
- SMR number
- GA057-043----
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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
Some 10m WNW of a ringfort (GA057-039----). Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 27)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.