Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfintan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfintan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballyfintan Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyfintan Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.18746, -8.40879
- SMR number
- GA106-026----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34m) defined by an earthen bank from NE through S to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts the monument at NE and NW; a wide gap (Wth 6.2m) is evident at SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Industrial siteunder 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.