Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacloghy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacloghy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22033, -8.97095
- SMR number
- GA102-009001-
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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
Within the E half of the interior of a large enclosure (GA102-009----) lie the remains of a subrectangular enclosure (21.7m E-W; 11.8m N-S) which is defined by a drystone wall. An ENE-WSW running field wall may overlie or follow the line of the N limits of the monument. A gap at W, marked by a large boulder, may mark an entrance. (Holt 1912, 230; McCaffrey 1952, 175, no. 11a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 August 2019
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.