Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballygunneen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygunneen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15531, -8.68468
- SMR number
- GA114-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. Marked only on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular enclosure (c. 22m NW-SE; c. 18m NE-SW). No visible surface trace survives. Possible an animal pen.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.