Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacloghy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacloghy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22147, -8.96463
- SMR number
- GA102-008----
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
On a gentle N-facing slope in grassland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 174, no. 13) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 45.7m) with traces of internal stone-facing. The monument has been levelled and all that is visible is a large revetted field-clearance cairn, the curving S side of which may follow the line of the enclosing element.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Gallowsunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.