Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballymaquiff South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaquiff South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12694, -8.81854
- SMR number
- GA113-021----
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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
In level pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular earthwork (14.5m N-S; 12m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone, now obscured by field-clearance rubble. A central depression (diam. 3.5m) is evident
within the interior. Possibly a barrow or a house site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.