Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballybaun (killogilleen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (killogilleen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19773, -8.68464
- SMR number
- GA104-020----
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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 farmland, c. 40m to the ESE of the site of a rath (GA104-019----). According to McCaffrey (1952, 24, no. 55; 1955, 222), this circular ring-barrow (diam. 37m) was defined by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 17.7m; H c. 0.42m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. It was subsequently bulldozed (Topgr. Files, NMI) and no visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is clearly visible as a cropmark on aerial imagery taken in 2018 (Google 2019).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
NMI file - Topographical files of the National Museum of Ireland. Unpublished
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.