Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynabanaba, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynabanaba
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36489, -8.38263
- SMR number
- GA073-019----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hill summit, overlooking bogland from N to E. Marked on 1st ed. of OS map as a roughly circular field (D c. 37m) and on OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a roughly subrectangular hachured enclosure (E-W c. 40m; N-S c. 37m). The hill summit is fairly level but drops sharply to W and N: apart from this, no visible surface trace survives.
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 12 October 2015
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.