Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybuck North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybuck North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17418, -8.77885
- SMR number
- GA104-280----
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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
Some 20m to the SW of a cashel (GA104-014001-). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 210, no. 134) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. 25m) defined by bank. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 6 September 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.