What is recorded here

Ballydonagh enclosure in County Galway was a subcircular embankment ringed with trees on the 1838 map, but by 1946-7 the trees had vanished and a field boundary cut across its interior. In 1961 it had become so worn that even an inspector could not tell whether it was a ringfort or only a shape made by farming. The land has since levelled it almost entirely, leaving a faint rise north of the boundary and a disappeared place that may have been a home, a marker or a mistake never corrected.

In flat grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked subcircular enclosure planted with a ring of trees. On the 1946-7 revision it (c. 55m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW) is clear of the trees and a field boundary cuts across the interior from WSW to E. When inspected in 1961 it was difficult to determine whether the monument was a ringfort or a landscape feature because it was so poorly preserved (SMR file). It has since been levelled and apart from a slight rise in the field level to the N of the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 February 2019

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