Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
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
- GA104-015003-
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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 interior of the E segment of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA104-015004-). A raised area, much disturbed by badgers which have exposed numerous human bones, marks a burial ground associated with the enclosure (pers. comm. Prof. E. Rynne December 1983).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- House - early medievalunder 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.