Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybroder (bullaun Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybroder (bullaun Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21962, -8.51830
- SMR number
- GA106-011----
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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
Some 20m to the W of a rath (GA106-010----). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a limekiln; on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) a hachured oval enclosure (c. 17 NE-SW; c. 10m ENE-WSW) defined by a bank and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' is shown. On the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map it is also depicted as an oval enclosure. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.