Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydonagh (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonagh (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23796, -8.23823
- SMR number
- GA099-022002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in grassland, immediately S of a rath (GA099-022----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS map as a pair of conjoined enclosures, see also GA099-022001-. This S example was subcircular (c. 50m N-S) in plan. It consists of a bivallate rath defined by two poorly preserved banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. A field boundary overlies most of the outer bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.