Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10180, -8.86597
- SMR number
- GA122-018002-
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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
A wedge-shaped intramural chamber ((L 2m; Wth 1m; H 0.9) incorporated into the enclosing element of a rath (GA122-018----) at NNE is possibly a sheep/lamb shelter.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.