Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ballybrit, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrit
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29396, -8.99887
- SMR number
- GA082-012002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
To W of Ballybrit Castle (GA082-012002-). Though not shown on the published OS 6-inch maps, it is marked on the 1819 Grand Jury Maps and OS Fair Plans as an extensive settlement of houses and earthworks (info. GBCAS Files). What survives today ; is a series of bumps and hollows representing the remains of house platforms and field systems (CUCAP B61; 37, 39, 40).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.