Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamannin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamannin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballynamannin Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballynamannin Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.20097, -8.74118
- SMR number
- GA104-052----
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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 rolling pastureland, a stream lies immediately to the SW. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 91.5m ext.) defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. McCaffrey (1952, 215-16, no. 65) noticed traces of stone-facing on the inner faces of the inner and outermost banks. A gap at N may be original as that through the middle bank is defined along its W side by transverse blocks. A field wall cuts across the monument at SE and SW and field-clearance rubble has been piled into the inner fosse. The railway line has destroyed the outer bank from SW to NW. There is a souterrain (GA104-052001-) in the S half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.