Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Galboley, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galboley
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26178, -8.56947
- SMR number
- GA097-106----
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 slight rise in pastureland, some 225m to the NNE of an enclosure (GA096-105----). This poorly preserved irregular enclosure (35m E-W; 32m N-S) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) from NW to NE and from SE to SW; a squared-off scarp forms the enclosing element along E and W sides. Possibly a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.