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Ringfort - rath

Ballylin East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballylin East, 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
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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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

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

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

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