Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodfield (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodfield (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62522, -8.68267
- SMR number
- GA017-154----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On S-facing slope of a rise in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved circular ringfort (D 48.3m) defined by a bank of earth and stone from NW through N to NE, and by a scarp from ESE to SE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A road cuts the monument at E and W. A ringfort (GA017-156----) lies c. 300m to WSW. (Knight c. 1975, 111)
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.