Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
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
- GA104-015004-
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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 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
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 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.