Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballybrone, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrone
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40259, -8.84052
- SMR number
- GA057-039----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S-facing slope of a low hill. Oval rath (WSW-ENE 44m, NNW-SSE 37m) defined by a denuded bank from WSW through N to ENE. A field wall cuts the monument at WSW and ENE, to SE of which a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. An unclassified stone structure (GA057-043----) lies 10m to WNW.
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.