Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballinphuill,Rahally, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphuill,Rahally
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27561, -8.50733
- SMR number
- GA098-141----
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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
On S-facing slope in marshy grassland overlooking bogland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 379:3) confirmed that a number of irregular field walls depicted on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) formed part of a field system covering an area c. 500m N-S by c. 400m E-W. Small rectangular and irregular fields defined by low earthen banks were noted, as well as two small irregular enclosures, possibly animal pens.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.