Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintava, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintava
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnaseragh-angall
- Coordinates
- 53.63915, -8.70858
- SMR number
- GA005-009----
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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 N-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 29.5m) defined by a degraded scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank best preserved at SW. There are two small quarries at N and S. A field boundary cuts the monument at NNE. (Neary 1914, 118, no. 37)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.