TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Ballyglass (Kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyglass, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyglass (Kilconnell By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.33442, -8.42166
SMR number
GA086-040----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

This rath is the northern part of a conjoined ringfort (see also GA068-040002-). It is roughly D-shaped in plan (32.5m E-W; 28.8m N-S), with the straight side running from SE to SW. It is defined by a low, degraded and, in places, very heavily overgrown bank (base Wth 3m; max. ext. H 2.2m; av. int. H 0.4m) from N to NNE and from ENE to SE; elsewhere it is delimited by a scarp. A modern field bank has been built along the outer face of the enclosing element from WNW to SE. From SE to SW a wide shallow fosse (Wth 4m D 0.55m) separates the two raths. No trace of it survives from SW to W but from W through N to SE a slight depression (D 0.1m), highlighted by a change in vegetation colour, indicates its line. Gaps are evident in the bank at ENE (Wth 4m) and at S (Wth 4.5m). The latter leads to a causeway (Wth 4.8m), which accesses the adjoining rath to the S. The interior of the rath is overgrown, particularly the N sector, which is inaccessible. There is a souterrain (GA068-040001-) in the SW quadrant. Outhouses have been built close to the monument to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 11 August 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Galway All County Galway records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map