Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockogonnell, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockogonnell
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68577, -8.48023
- SMR number
- GA002-036----
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 NE-facing slope in gently rolling grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 42m, E-W 37.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is present from E through S to SW. The bank is overlain by a field boundary from NE to SE and does not survive at NW. A large modern pit some 2m deep occupies NE sector of interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.