What is recorded here
Ballynamannin holds a worn circular rath twenty-three metres across, marked only by a low bank on a gentle north-facing slope. A field wall now cuts through its northern edge, and a broad depression lies in the southeast interior where something may have stood or fallen. The fort has lost its sharp lines, but the shape remains: a small ring of earth set into pastureland, waiting to be remembered.
On a gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 23.6m) defined by a bank. A field wall cuts the monument at NNW and NNE. McCaffrey (1952, 215, no. 32) noted traces of an external fosse at S but no visible surface trace of it survives. There is a large depression (11m E-W; 3m N-S) in the SE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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