Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynahistil, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahistil
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20786, -8.45744
- SMR number
- GA106-029----
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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 rise in low-lying pastureland. This very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) is defined by a low bank (Wth 1.7m; base Wth 7.45m; int. H 0.58m; ext. H 0.89m) that is visible only from NE to SE and from S to W. An old angled field boundary (GA106-029001-) visible to the SE may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.