Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymaquiff South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaquiff South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12945, -8.81896
- SMR number
- GA113-020----
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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 a rise in rough pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (37m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a bank which is obscured by field-clearance rubble from NW through E to SW. A modern field wall, running NW-SE, cuts through W half of the monument. Traces of an L-shaped bank of earth and boulders visible in the SE quadrant of the interior may possibly be the foundations of a house site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.