Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12727, -8.32208
- SMR number
- GA117-005----
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
In gently rolling grassland. Well-preserved almost circular rath (45m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by
a bank from SE to S, and from SSW to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A band of darker vegetation from W to NW may indicate the line of an external fosse.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.