Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ben Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ben Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26942, -8.51926
- SMR number
- GA098-037----
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 ridge in grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-2.7m). The interior has been quarried out in a number of places and there is a children's burial ground (GA098-037001-) in E sector.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.