Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballybaan More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaan More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28611, -9.01313
- SMR number
- GA082-010----
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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
Formerly in flat pastureland, now incorporated into a housing estate at Mervue in NE suburbs of Galway city. Subcircular rath (NW-SE 51.5m) in fair condition, defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse, best preserved from SE to NW. No visible trace survives of the fosse and outer bank from NW to NE. A field bank radiates from the ringfort at WNW. There is a souterrain in the interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.