Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballylin West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19491, -8.72793
- SMR number
- GA104-038----
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
On a N-facing slope. This poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (c. 32m N-S; 30.4m E-W) occupies the scooped-out W end of a low but steep-sided drumlin. It is defined along the E half by a scarp and elsewhere by a low earthen bank. A round house site (GA104-036----) lies c. 150m to the NW. (McCaffrey 1952, 214, no. 70)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.