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
- 53.21750, -8.96752
- SMR number
- GA102-017----
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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
In undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (40m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a later field wall. A gap at N appears to be modern.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.