Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Conagher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conagher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.64160, -8.87307
- SMR number
- GA004-009----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a NW-facing slope in grassland overlooking bogland to NW. Subcircular rath (NE-SW 94m ext.), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field boundary cuts across the monument at NE and S, to E of which no visible surface trace survives. The inner bank is present at W; elsewhere a scarp (quarried out at WSW and N) forms the enclosing element. A field wall overlies the outer bank from S to W. A gap at W appears modern. There is a probable souterrain (GA004-009001-) within the 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.