Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybaun (lackalea Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (lackalea Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23924, -8.59347
- SMR number
- GA097-001----
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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 a W-facing slope of a rise in grassland. Circular rath (diam. 33m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosing elements are much disturbed from NE through E to SE. There is a stone-lined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at E. A field wall cuts through the monument at SE and SW. There is a bullaun (GA097-001001-) in NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.