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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29756, -8.77987
- SMR number
- GA084-011----
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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 gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and on the 1933 edition as a large roughly subrectangular tree plantation (c. 80m E-W; c. 77m N-S). Cody (1989) concluded that the enclosure was probably a ringfort that was subsequently planted with trees. The trees have since been removed from the interior of the plantation and no visible surface trace of the ringfort survives. The grassy bank enclosing the plantation is visible all round and numerous trees are still growing on it. Another rath (GA084-012----) lies c. 50m to the SW and there is an enclosure (GA084-010----) c. 70m to the SE. (Knox 1918b, 108, no. 8)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
References
Knox, H.T. 1917-18 Ballygurraun and Raheen group of works in earth and stone. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 101-124.
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.