Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17604, -8.75092
- SMR number
- GA104-026----
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
In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 212, no. 142a) as an ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 29.3m E-W; c. 25m N-S) and described as being ‘extremely ruinous’ as a field fence had been built on top of the bank. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.