Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinderreen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinderreen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19179, -8.91432
- SMR number
- GA103-007----
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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
In farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an almost circular enclosure (diam. c. 37m); by the time of the of 3rd edition (1933) it had been partially levelled and only the E half of the monument is indicated. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 177, no. 107) as a circular ‘Earthen fort ’ of which only a portion of the bank (L c. 40m) survived. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.