Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyglass West (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13986, -8.82856
- SMR number
- GA113-012----
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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
In tillage. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). A NE-SW running field boundary cut across it from NNE to WSW. Another field boundary, running NW-SE, cut it at W. On inspection in September 1982 no visible surface trace was noted. A kink visible on aerial imagery (Google 2019) in another field boundary running NNW-SSE to the NE of enclosure may mirror the outline of the enclosing element. (McCaffrey 1952, 262, no. 32a)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.