Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- 53.29315, -8.99567
- SMR number
- GA082-013001-
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
Within the interior of a rath (GA082-013----). Just W of centre traces of a rectangular house (12m E-W; 6.5m N-S) are visible . (Waddell 1971, 73-9)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 30 August 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 14/1977).
References
Waddell, J. 1971 A ringfort at Ballybrit, Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 32, 73-9.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.