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
- 53.40043, -8.84363
- SMR number
- GA057-041----
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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
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (WSW-ENE 54.6m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall; inner and outer wall-facing is visible at SE and S. A gap (Wth 4m) at SE could be original. Abutting the wall at SE is a rectangular structure (E-W; L 3m, Wth 1m), possibly a later animal pen. A series of field banks lie to NW.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.