Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamona (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55960, -8.75460
- SMR number
- GA030-006----
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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 S-facing slope in grassland. Almost circular rath (E-W 28m, N-S 27m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse best preserved from S through W to NW. A field wall cuts the monument at NNE and SE, to E of which the enclosing elements are very poorly preserved. Within SW section of the interior, a low bank running NW-SE is possibly an internal division. The N half has been quarried out.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.