Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinlass (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlass (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballinlass Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.61318, -8.70234
- SMR number
- GA017-015----
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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 otherwise low-lying grassland. Overgrown circular rath (D 32.5m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements from NNW to NNE. A probable souterrain (GA017-015001-) is associated. Earthworks (GA017-017---- and GA017-016----) lie c. 220m to WNW and 250m to S respectively. (Neary 1914, 112, no. 82)
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.