Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballintober West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cahernaclossa Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernaclossa Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.26432, -8.46632
- SMR number
- GA098-015----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating farmland, c. 200m NNW of a stream. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (32.5m NE-SW; 24.5m NW-SE) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank. The monument is cut by a field wall at WNW and ESE, and a field fence at S. A water tank has been erected in SE quadrant of
the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.