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
- 53.20455, -8.70127
- SMR number
- GA104-032----
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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 rough pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 212, no. 42a) as a circular 'Earthen fort' (diam. c. 40.2m) defined by a 'very ruinous' bank; a field fence obscured the monument. Two field boundaries shown on the OS 6-inch maps indicate that the rath was clipped by one boundary running from NNE to SSE and the other, which intersected with this one, running from SSE to SSW. When visited in 1983 only a slight overgrown mound was visible. It has since been levelled and the rath is now defined by a low scarp from SSE through W to NNE. The NNE-SSE running field boundary has been cleared and no visible surface trace survives to the E of it.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.