Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycahalan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahalan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08877, -8.75407
- SMR number
- GA123-014----
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 the crest of a hillock in grassland. This subcircular rath (c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by an eathen bank. A rectangular hollow (L 11.3m; Wth 7.3m) immediately outside it at S could be the result of quarrying.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.