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Enclosure

Ballagh West (Clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballagh West, 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
Ballagh West (Clonmacnowen By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27396, -8.27471
SMR number
GA099-195----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 gently undulating grassland. Noted during aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 377:23, 29-30). Very poorly preserved roughly D-shaped enclosure (E-W c. 120m) defined from E to S by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m, H 0.2m) and external fosse, and from S to WNW by a scarp (H 0.4m); no trace of it survives elsewhere. The interior rises to a low rocky hillock defined along its NW side by a natural scarp. A number of modern field banks cut across the monument.

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

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

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