Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ballynaclogh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclogh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnabasty
- Coordinates
- 53.28838, -8.39708
- SMR number
- GA086-052----
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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
On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (D c. 43m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from SSW through W to NNE and is breached by numerous gaps; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Quarrying has encroached upon the fosse from ESE to SSW. A number of internal divisions are visible within the interior, and in S half a CBG (GA086-052001-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.