Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygowan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygowan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09361, -8.39188
- SMR number
- GA125-017----
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 hilly pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (32m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp and external fosse. Modern field walls encircle the monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.