Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyterrim, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyterrim
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25329, -8.30432
- SMR number
- GA099-039----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular ringfort (WSW-ENE 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone with slight traces of an external fosse at NNW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE. A gap (Wth 2m) at WNW may be original. A ringfort (GA099-038----) lies c. 130m to N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.