Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackloon (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57444, -8.70486
- SMR number
- GA017-023----
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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 low-lying grassland overlooking bogland from N through E to SW. Known locally as 'Flattery's Fort' (Neary 1914, 114, no. 99), this subcircular rath (N-S 36m, E-W 30.5m) is defined by two fairly well-preserved banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is present from W to N, and from SE to S where it is overlain by a field bank. A trackway cuts the monument at NNW and SSE. Adjoining it at SW is a subcircular enclosure (E-W 36.5m, N-S 35m) defined by an earthen bank, it may be associated.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.