Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballinrooaun (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrooaun (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44798, -8.61090
- SMR number
- GA059-002001-
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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
In N sector of a ringfort (GA059-002----). It consists of an oval hollow (L 6.2m, Wth 3.4m), running NW-SE and up to 1m in depth. Traces of possible stone-facing are visible along the sides of the hollow and the base is quite uneven and stony. (Claffey 1983, 146)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.