What is recorded here

Kidney-shaped enclosure in Ballyhogan grassland, mapped in 1838 and named Lissalumma or Ballyhogan on the Fair Plan. A two-metre bank and shallow fosse still mark most of its rim, though a scarp and modern boundary take over the rest. Sand pits opened beside it, taking what they wanted and leaving the old line half-hidden in grass.

In undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS map 6-inch map as a roughly small rectangular field. However, on the OS Fair Plan, though similarly depicted, it is named 'Lissalumma or Ballyhogan'. A poorly preserved roughly kidney-shaped enclosure (26.5m E-W; 25m N-S) is visible. It is defined from NE to S by a bank (Wth 2m; max. int. H 0.75m; max. ext. H 1.3m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.1m; D 0.35m); an overgrown and much-obscured scarp forms the enclosing element from S to NW and there is a modern field boundary from NW to NE. A disused sand/gravel pit lies immediately to the SW and other sand pits are visible to the SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

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