Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Milestone
Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- M.P.
- Coordinates
- 53.13662, -8.83799
- SMR number
- GA113-218----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a grassy verge on the E side of a local road. Named 'M.P.' on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this milestone (H 0.84m; Wth 0.29m at front, 0.45m at rear; D 0.35m) consists of a well-dressed trapezoidal-shaped limestone pillar with a slight chamfer to the front angles. The upper part of the stone, all around the top, is badly spalled. The inscription on the front face would have read ‘13 From Galway’ but, as a result of spalling, all that survives is ‘--/-rom/-alway’ (O’Sullivan 2021, No. 5). The milestone is one of nine in the study area, see also GA122-098----, GA122-147----, GA122-148----, GA113-189----, GA113-217----, GA103-217----, GA103-218---- and GA103-219----). (McManus 2022, 17-18, No. 5)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 March 2023
McManus, G. 2022 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road' from Gort to Galway. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.
O'Sullivan, J. 2021 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road'. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.