Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Anomalous stone group
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
- 53.29752, -8.99507
- SMR number
- GA082-016----
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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 flat open pastureland, now part of Ballybrit Racecourse. Until its removal in the 1960s or early 1970s, it consisted of 'an upright stone with an adjacent prostrate stone' which tradition held to be a mass-rock (Topgr. Files, UCG). No visible surface traces survive. (Anon. 1918, 99)
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
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.