Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boyhill,farranablake East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boyhill,farranablake East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28824, -8.74500
- SMR number
- GA084-032----
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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 rolling pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 46m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) cut from NE to SE by a road. Knox’s plan (1918, 122, no. 24) suggests that it was defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. It was levelled sometime between 1970 and 1978 (Cody 1989, 276, no. 100). A house has been built on the site and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.