Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Ballintober West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26368, -8.46051
- SMR number
- GA098-017----
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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
A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a disused sand and gravel pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 August 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.