Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylin East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20719, -8.70256
- SMR number
- GA104-029001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In scrubland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 212-13, no. 43) as a circular 'Earthen fort' (diam. c. 48m) defined by a poorly preserved bank. No visible surface trace survives. A souterrain (GA104-029002-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.