Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyboy (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyboy (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03845, -8.85113
- SMR number
- GA128-016----
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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 hillock in grassland. Named ‘Fort’ on OS Fair Plan. A poorly preserved subcircular rath (40m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by a bank. The fosse-like feature inside the bank at SE may be due to the natural slope of the hillock. Several breaches appear to be modern. A field boundary surrounds the enclosing element obscuring an traces of an external fosse.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.