Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacloghy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacloghy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22234, -8.97916
- SMR number
- GA102-003----
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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 rise in pastureland overlooking Lackanaloy Creek to NW. Pear-shaped rath (26.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S), in fair condition, long axis NW-SE, defined by a bank which, according to McCaffrey (1952, 174, no. 12), may have been stone-faced internally. Possible house foundations (GA102-003002-; L 11m; Wth 5m) are visible in NW quadrant of the interior. A raised trackway (L c. 30m) extends from NW for a distance of 30m and leads to a subcircular enclosure (GA102-003001-). (Holt 1912, 230)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
References
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.