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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Ballybaun (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Ballybaun, 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
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
GA104-015004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 an area of improved pastureland and rock outcrop. This poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 63m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.7m; H 0.4m). It is clipped at W by a N-S running field wall and at S by an E-W running one. A well-defined entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at N is marked by two large boulders, that to the W (L 1.4m; Wth 1.5m; T 0.3m) has fallen while that to the E (H 1.15m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.5m) is set just inside the bank. Radial banks, running roughly NE-SW and NW-SE, divide the interior into four segments of differing sizes. In the E segment a raised platform may mark a small burial area (GA104-015001-); it has been disturbed by badgers which have exposed numerous human bones. The monument is densely overgrown with thorn bushes. A house site (GA104-015002-) c. 12m to the E may be associated. (O'Doherty 1984; Prof. E. Rynne pers. comm. December 1983)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 17 January 2020

References

O'Doherty, T. 1984 A discovery in Ardrahan 1978. Muintir Amhán - Muinter Ardrahan. Privately published.

Nearby in the register

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

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