Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large 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
- 53.29439, -8.77491
- SMR number
- GA084-016----
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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 a slight S-facing slope in gently undulating mixed farmland. Described by Knox (1918b, 117, no. 15) as a poorly preserved 'rectangular enclosure' (c. 77m E-W; c. 68.5m N-S) with a 'square stone' annexe (L/Wth c. 23m) at NW. The latter was built around a low natural platform. No visible surface trace survives. (Cody 1989, 387, no. 172)
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.
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- 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.