Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynahivnia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahivnia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24110, -8.66518
- SMR number
- GA097-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (43.3m N-S; 40.7m E-W)defined by a bank at S and elsewhere by a scarp. A field wall overlies the enclosing element throughout.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.