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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26114, -8.45248
- SMR number
- GA098-020----
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
In undulating marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 29.7m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. Traces of the outer bank survive from NW through N to NE. The inner scarp has been extensively quarried from NW through N to SE. A trackway cuts through the enclosing elements at NE and SE. A causewayed gap (Wth 8m) at W may be original. A children's burial ground (GA098-020001-) lies within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy 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.