Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynakill (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64178, -8.44278
- SMR number
- GA007-037----
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
On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 38m, N-S 35.5m) defined by a denuded earthen bank at NE, and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is present from SSW to NW. The monument is cut by a field bank at NW and NE, and the td. boundary encricles it from NE to SE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wall monument - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.