Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballydoogan (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydoogan (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19535, -8.48628
- SMR number
- GA106-022001-
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 SE-facing slope, SW of Ballydoogan House. Well-preserved circular rath (diam c. 50m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse with an entrance gap at NW. A souterrain (GA106-022002-) and chapel (GA106-022003-) lie in the SW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.