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Barrow - unclassified

Ballygarraun (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Ballygarraun, 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
Ballygarraun (Loughrea By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.18509, -8.66581
SMR number
GA105-216----

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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

Encircling a hillock in an area of rough pastureland. This very poorly preserved oval enclosure (c. 70m E-W; c. 60m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m, H 1m) and an internal fosse (Wth 7.5m) from N through E to S. At S it peters out and there is no visible surface trace elsewhere but the slope appears to be scarped from NW to N. A field boundary cuts across the hillock, close to its base, at W and quarrying has encroached upon N sector. Field-clearance material is evident on the SW slope. There is a children's burial ground (GA105-020----) within the interior, on the summit.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 2 June 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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