Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Balling, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balling
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64660, -8.46597
- SMR number
- GA007-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse. The fosse is present from NW to NE and from SE to SW. Field boundaries cut the monument at NE and SE and at NNW and SW. Another curving field boundary running just outside the fosse, from NNW to NNE and from SE to SW, could overlie an outer bank.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.