Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockballyvishteal, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockballyvishteal
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59519, -8.84946
- SMR number
- GA016-084----
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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 rise in undulating grassland. Known locally as 'Lyon's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 146), this poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 52m) is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. A gap at SW appears modern. A field bank cuts the monument at N and E, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to NE of it.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.