Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Ballymariscal, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymariscal
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14539, -8.79245
- SMR number
- GA114-019----
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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. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed circular mixed tree plantation. On the 1921 edition it is shown as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a wall. A number of trees are visible in the interior. No visible surface trace survived when visited by McCaffrey (1952, 280, no. 50 ), who suggested that it may have been 'an ornamental ring of trees'. A similar feature is shown on the maps c. 165m to the NE (see GA114-017----). Possibly a landscape feature associated with Tullira Castle (GA114-166002-).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 17 June 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.