Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybaun (abbey West Ed),caherphuca, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (abbey West Ed),caherphuca
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41441, -8.77525
- SMR number
- GA058-087----
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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 SW-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Large well-preserved rectangular enclosure (N-S 110m, E-W 55m) defined by a massive drystone wall (Wth 2m, H 2m max.) along S, W and N sides. The td. boundary wall (Wth 1.5m) forms the enclosing element along E side and there is no trace of the enclosure to E of it. There is a definite entrance (Wth c. 4m) at W and a possible one at SW. A number of houses (GA058-087001-, GA058-087002-, GA058-087003-) and several large piles of field- clearance rubble lie within the interior. An internal drystone wall subdivides NE quadrant. Possibly post-medieval in date.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.