Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass South,ballyglass West (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass South,ballyglass West (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67287, -8.51125
- SMR number
- GA007-023----
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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 grassland overlooking bogland to NW. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (NNW-SSE 38m, WSW-ENE 37m) defined by a degraded bank from SW through N to E, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element from ESE to SW. Traces of an external fosse survive at E.
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
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 3 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.