Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ballygarraun North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarraun North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29981, -8.77717
- SMR number
- GA084-009----
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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 a prominent hillock in undulating pastureland. This large subcircular enclosure (112m N-S; 100m E-W) is defined by a drystone wall, best preserved fromN to ENE. A modern field wall overlies the enclosing element
from ENE to ESE; from ESE to SSE no visible surface trace of it survives. Cody (1989, 171-3, no. 30) noted an entrance gap (Wth 9.5m) at W, where the wall kinks inwards. This area is now obscured by overgrowth. The interior is crossed by several modern field walls, one of which overlies an internal division in the E half of the monument. According to Knox (1918b, 110-12, no. 10), numerous human bones were found within the interior by local farmers. A souterrain (GA084-009001-) lies c. 20m to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 August 2019
References
Knox, H.T. 1918b The Masonbrook rings and mound and their relation to other similar works. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 71-96.
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.