Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynagar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08812, -8.41816
- SMR number
- GA125-020----
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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 hillock in pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure within an enclosed mixed tree plantation. On the 1925 edition the enclosing element of the plantation is not shown. The top of the hillock is slightly flattend and nearly circular (diam. c. 35m), however, no visible surface trace of the monument survives. All the trees have been removed. The siting suggests that it was possibly a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.