Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydonnellan West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonnellan West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25484, -8.41657
- SMR number
- GA098-147----
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 pastureland. This subcircular enclosure (NE-SW c. 30m; NW-SE c. 26.7m) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2018. A NW-SE running field boundary clips the enclosing element at NNW and NNE. The monument is marked on the current OSi digital mapping and is visible on the OSi Ortho and digitalglobe aerial imagery. Possibly a rath.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA098-147----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 20 March 2018.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.