Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinrooaun (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrooaun (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23981, -8.38685
- SMR number
- GA098-004----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (37.8m NNW-SSE; 34m NE-SW) defined by a bank from NNW through E to SW, and by an external fosse from SE through S to NW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.