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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballydavid Middle, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballydavid Middle, 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
Ballydavid Middle
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32031, -8.75308
SMR number
GA084-157----

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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 pastureland. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 24m) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2018 and on OSi digitalglobe imagery (2011-2013). Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Possibly a ring-barrow.

The following image has been uploaded: GA084-157-----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2018)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 20 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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