Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballylahy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylahy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.12908, -8.72791
- SMR number
- GA114-010----
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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
In gently undulating pastureland. Only SW half of this rath survives. It is defined by a bank and external fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at SW. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NW and SE and no visible surface trace survives of the enclosing elements to NE of it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.