Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11275, -8.86452
- SMR number
- GA113-025----
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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 gentle rise in pastureland. Well-preserved oval rath (c. 60m N-S; 46.6m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank survives as a low rise, overlain by a later field wall, except from E to SE. Traces of internal stone-facing are evident on the inner bank and a stone-lined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) is visible at E. There is a souterrain (GA113-025001-) in the SW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.