Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybroder (bullaun Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybroder (bullaun Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21978, -8.51748
- SMR number
- GA106-010----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a rise in otherwise level pastureland. Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. A souterrain (GA106-010001-) lies within the interior. An oval enclosure (GA106-011----) lies c. 20m to the W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.