Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycahill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15860, -8.29643
- SMR number
- GA117-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in gently rolling grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (22.8m E-W; 21.9m N-S) defined by a bank at NW and elsewhere by a scarp. The fosse only survives from W to N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.