Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyshea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17681, -8.70272
- SMR number
- GA104-062----
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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 reclaimed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subrectangular field (c. 43m ENE-WSW; c. 34m N-S) with a 'Cave' (GA104-062001-) in the N sector of the interior. On the 1933 edition only the field boundary, curving from NW to SE, is depicted. On inspection in May 1983 only the curving boundary was visible; it may mirror the line of a possible rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.