Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybuck North,Killinny West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybuck North,Killinny West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherlissan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherlissan
- Coordinates
- 53.10278, -8.91765
- SMR number
- GA122-002----
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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
On the crest of a low steep-sided hillock in tillage. Named 'Caherlissan' on the OS 6-inch maps, this possible rath has been ploughed out but when viewed from the W its outline is visible as a shallow circular depression (32m E-W) in the field surface. The line of the enclosing element is indicated by a change in soil colour at N and E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.