Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bellayarha South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellayarha South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24450, -8.54883
- SMR number
- GA097-014001-
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 W-facing slope of a hillock in gently rolling grassland. An almost circular rath (30.5m E-W; 29m N-S), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. A gap (Wth 3m) in the inner bank at S may be original. The outer bank only survives from SSW through W to N. The interior has been extensively quarried.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.