Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Bredagh (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bredagh (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballytoohy Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.43753, -8.39808
- SMR number
- GA060-019----
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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. Very poorly preserved oval rath (NW-SE 33m, NE-SW 26m) defined by a denuded bank, which is visible intermittently, and a scarp. A very shallow external fosse survives along S and is visible elsewhere as a dark band of vegetation. A gap (Wth 3.2m) at N may be original.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.