Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Ballyglass (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33477, -8.40715
- SMR number
- GA086-046----
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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 undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1948) as a circular area planted with trees (D c. 25m). It consists of a poorly preserved tree-covered circular enclosure (D 20m) defined by a scarp and external water-filled fosse, fed by a spring at SW and drained by a stream at S. Possibly a landscaped ringfort but more likely to be an ornamental feature associated with Abbeyview House, a 19th-C mansion 150m to NW.
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.