Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybaun (killogilleen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybaun (killogilleen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19793, -8.68565
- SMR number
- GA104-019----
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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 reclaimed farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 211, no. 54) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. 56.7m) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. Apparently levelled during field-clearance operations. No visible surface trace survives. However, its ouline is clearly visible as a cropmark on aerial imagey taken in 2018 (Google 2019). There is a ring-barrow (GA104-020----) c. 40m to ESE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 9 August 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.