Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygarraun North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarraun North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30282, -8.77382
- SMR number
- GA084-008----
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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
At the S end of a NE-SW running esker ridge in gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A plan published by Knox (1918b, 113, no. 12) indicates a large enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a bank from WSW through N to ENE. The central area of the interior was naturally raised. However, Cody (1989, 269-70, no. 92) classifies the monument as a ringfort. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 August 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Knox, H.T. 1918b The Masonbrook rings and mound and their relation to other similar works. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 71-96.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.