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Enclosure

Ballygarraun North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballygarraun North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballygarraun North
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.29753, -8.77821
SMR number
GA084-010----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating pastureland. Described by Cody (1989, 294-5, no. 119) as an embanked rectangular enclosure (28m N-S; 21m E-W) built on a low rectangular platform (42m N-S; 35m E-W). Trace of a later field wall were evident along most of the E side of the platform and intermittent heaps of stone suggested that it formerly ran all round it. Possibly a ringfort or a moated site, or perhaps an even later settlement site. A ringfort (GA084-011----) lies c. 100m to the NW. (Knox 1918, 109-10, no. 9)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 11 February 2019

References

Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.

Knox, H.T. 1917-18 Ballygurraun and Raheen group of works in earth and stone. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 101-124.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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