Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballaghdorragha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghdorragha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballaghdorragha Rath
- Coordinates
- 53.65209, -8.69310
- SMR number
- GA005-006----
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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
On a W-facing slope overlooking bogland to W. Oval rath (E-W 47m, N-S 30.5m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Both faces of the inner bank, present from E through S to W, are revetted with stone; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from E through S to W. A gap at E could be original. Within the interior is a grassed-over rectangular structure of stone (L 5 m, Wth 4m), possibly a house; surrounding it are a series of mounds and hollows, probably internal divisions. A souterrain (GA005-005----) lies 375m to NW. (Neary 1914, 119, no. 21)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.