Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballygarraun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Pumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.