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Ballinphuill (killallaghtan Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphuill (killallaghtan Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29247, -8.40913
- SMR number
- GA086-030001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In E half of a ringfort (GA086-030----). What is visible is a weed and grass-grown subrectangular depression (L 7.2m) running NNW-SSE. It varies in width from 2.1m at NNW end to 4.8m at SSE, and is 1.2m in depth. Some large stones are visible in the depression at mid-point. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' in the ringfort and this hollow is the result of somebody attempting to gain access to it.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.