Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballydonagh (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonagh (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22491, -8.23258
- SMR number
- GA099-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In flat grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked subcircular enclosure planted with a ring of trees. On the 1946-7 revision it (c. 55m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is clear of the trees and a field boundary cuts across the interior from WSW to E. When inspected in 1961 it was difficult to determine whether the monument was a ringfort or a landscape feature because it was so poorly preserved (SMR file). It has since been levelled and apart from a slight rise in the field level to the N of the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 February 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.