Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - early medieval
Ballybaun (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17012, -8.78393
- SMR number
- GA104-015002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an area of improved pastureland and outcropping limestone. A small subcircular enclosure (8.3m E-W; 7.5m N-S) is defined by bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m). A gap at NW may mark the original entrance. This may be a house site associated with the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA104-015004-) c. 12m to its W (pers. comm. Prof. E. Rynne December 1983). The area is densely overgrown with thorn bushes.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.