Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfintan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfintan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19487, -8.41187
- SMR number
- GA106-025----
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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 the summit of a low hill. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW)defined by a bank, which has been disturbed and modified from N to ESE by the construction of a later field wall. A gap (Wth 5m) is visible at SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.