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Bawn

Ballygasty, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Ballygasty, 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
Ballygasty
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.21584, -8.56738
SMR number
GA105-021001-

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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 flat pastureland. On inspection in November 1982, a roughly square enclosure (25m N-S; 24m E-W) was noted to the E of an unclassified castle (GA105-021----). It was defined by a grass-covered stone wall. Current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe) suggests that enclosure was possibly a bawn wall that surrounded the castle, which occupies its SW corner. A farm roadway now cuts across it to the E of the castle site (Google Earth imagery dated 18/09/2020 last accessed 20/08/2021)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 20 August 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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