Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydavid, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydavid
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20216, -8.46003
- SMR number
- GA106-017----
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 slight rise in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A low ridge running across the monument from NNE to SSW may indicate the line of a field wall that is indicated on 1st ed. OS map.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.