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
- 53.55942, -8.75169
- SMR number
- GA030-007----
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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 grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 42m, N-S 38m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank does not survive from N to NE where quarrying has encroached upon the monument. The outer bank and fosse are best preserved from SE through S to W; no visible surface trace survives from N through E to SE. Within S half of the interior are a number of internal divisions, to N of which is a souterrain (GA030-007001-)
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.