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Ringfort - rath

Ballynamanagh West, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynamanagh West, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynamanagh West
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisdoo
Latest-edition OS map
Lisdoo
Coordinates
53.22007, -8.92921
SMR number
GA103-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 41.2m) defined by a
bank and external fosse. Traces of internal stone-facing are evident on the bank at N. A causewayed gap (Wth 2.3m) at NE may be original. There is a souterrain (GA103-041001-) within the SW quadrant of the interior. (Holt 1912, 233; McCaffrey 1952, 182, no. 6)

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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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