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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13351, -8.83165
- SMR number
- GA113-015----
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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 level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 263, no. 45) as a ‘Stone fort (?)’, the enclosing element of which was obscured by earth and rubble. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 41m) is defined by a low grassed-over bank which is overlain by a later field wall. A children’s burial ground (GA113-015001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.