Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballygarraun South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarraun South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29518, -8.77458
- SMR number
- GA084-015----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in undulating mixed farmland. Described by Knox (1918, 118, no. 16) as a very poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (c. 51m N-S; c. 32m E-W). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
References
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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.