Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.33410, -8.42157
- SMR number
- GA086-040002-
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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
This rath is the southern part of a conjoined ringfort (see also GA068-040----). It is roughly circular in plan (D 35m) and is defined by a substantial but heavily overgrown bank (max. Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.9m; max. ext. H 5m) from NE to S to NW; from NW to NE it is delimited by a scarp (H 2.1m). Apart from the wide shallow fosse (Wth 4m D 0.55m), which separates the two raths, from NW to NE, there is no other visible surface trace of it. Modern gaps occur in the bank at E (Wth 2m) and at S (Wth 11.3m). At N a gap (Wth 2.8m) leads to a causeway (Wth 4.8m), which accesses the adjoining rath (GA068-040----) to the N. There is a possible souterrain (GA068-040003-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. A modern field wall curves around the monument from NE to SSE. A silage pit has been built close to the monument to the SE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.