Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamantan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamantan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08165, -8.81765
- SMR number
- GA122-016----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slope in low-lying marshy grassland. Circular rath (diam. 27.9m), in fair condition, defined by a bank obscured by overgrowth. No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives from ENE to SE. A roughly E-W running field wall cuts through the rath at SSE and WSW and the area to the S of it is densely overgrown with trees and bushes.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.