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
- 53.23576, -8.59841
- SMR number
- GA097-004----
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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 grassland. On inspection in August 1984 this very poorly preserved roughly subcircular rath (diam. 32m) was defined by a levelled earthen bank (Wth 6m). An E-W running field wall clipped the monument at N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.