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Leagaun Handball Alley
Moycullen Heritage
Old handball alley Leagaun, P.J. Lally, John O' Toole and Walty Mc Donagh c1959
Moycullen Heritage
Crinoid and a Brachiopod, with arguably an intact fossilized pedicle, in the wall of Leagaun Handball Alley.
Hazel Morrison
Heavily fossilized stone at Leagaun Handball Alley
Hazel Morrison
Crinoid, Brachiopod and Colonial Coral embedded in the stone at Leagaun Handball Alley
Hazel Morrison
Crinoid at Leagaun Handball Alley
Hazel Morrison
Routeway through Stonepark linking Gortaghokera to Leagaun.
Hazel Morrison
Stonepark, now deserted of residents, but at the time of the Tithe Aplotments in 1828 the landholders were Pat Tierney, Nicholas Maloney, Pat/Dan & Tom Lydon, James Melia, Pat O'Dea and Myles McDonagh.
Hazel Morrison
Moycullen has a long tradition in playing handball, dating back to pre-famine times. The Leagaun ball alley was built in 1839 and renovated by the Leagaun/Ballinahallia communities in the 1950s and again in 2009.
Although much of the alley is now plastered, evidence of fossils remain in external exposed limestone wall, north of the entrance door. Here we can see Colonial Coral, Crinoids and a Brachiopod with possibly an intact fossilized pedicle.
This structure is built in close proximity to an area aptly known as Stonepark, which may have been the source of the building material.
Site Location: 53.353065, -9.160058
Site Accessibility: Public
Leagaun, Tullokyne ED, Conamara Municipal District, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland
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