Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Brackloon (killoran Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (killoran Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26487, -8.39548
- SMR number
- GA098-040----
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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
On a natural rise in grassland, 150m N of a stream. According to the landowner, this is the site of a 'fort' which consisted of a circular enclosure defined by a bank. However, the area was levelled some years ago during land reclamation and no visible surface trace survives. A 'stone axehead' was found c. 250m to SE (Topgr. Files, NMI).
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
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.