Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Fahy (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahy (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49939, -10.11178
- SMR number
- GA035-038----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small promontory overlooking mouth of Clifden Bay to S. Level triangular area (35m by 30m max.) defined by a well-preserved inner bank (Wth 6.7m, H 3.2m max.), a steep-sided, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4-7m), and a poorly preserved outer bank (Wth 3.5m, H 0.8m). No trace exists of an entrance through the inner bank and a large gap in outer may be modern.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.