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House - indeterminate date

Ballymabilla, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Ballymabilla, 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
Ballymabilla
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28449, -8.43726
SMR number
GA086-047005-

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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 level marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (D 30m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall from NE through S to WSW, and by a scarp from N to NE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere due to quarrying. Centrally placed within the interior is a rectangular house (GA086-047004)(ESE-WNW; L 14m, Wth 6m) defined by a low drystone wall. There are opposing doorways in NE and SW sides, and traces of an internal division. Immediately to W is probable souterrain (GA086-047002-). Two banks radiate from the house at NW and S, and there is an L-shaped structure (E-W; L 3m, Wth 2m) c. 9.5m to N; possibly the remains of a second house (GA086-047005-). Another house (GA086-047003-) lies 40m to SSE.

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: 21 October 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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