Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laughil (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughil (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54192, -8.65237
- SMR number
- GA031-050----
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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 ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 39m, N-S 33.5m) defined by a low bank, overlain from S through W to NW by a field bank. Possible external fosse survivesoutside the field bank at SW. The interior has been disturbed by the uprooting of trees.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.