Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacourty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21618, -8.94531
- SMR number
- GA103-029----
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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 low ridge in grassland. Roughly circular rath (diam. c. 42m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank only survive from SSW to WSW. A number of gaps occur in the inner bank, that at S may be original. A
possible internal division is visible in W half of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 181, no. 12)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.