Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnaboy (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnaboy (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25551, -8.21553
- SMR number
- GA100-025----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (24.3m NW-SE; 18.5m NE-SW) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible at NW and NE, and a scarp forms the enclosing element at N and from E to SE. A modern drain cuts diagonally across the monument from NW to SE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the SW of it. The fosse only survives at NW. Modern drains are also evident from N to SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 20th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 20th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.