Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Quinaltagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quinaltagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63643, -8.81306
- SMR number
- GA004-034----
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 S-facing slope in grassland. Known locally as 'Hernon's Cahir' (Neary 1914, 121, no. 71), this poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 32m, E-W 29m) is defined by a stone-faced bank. A gap at S, though modern, may have given original access. Overlooked by a ringfort (GA005-100----) which lies c. 140m to NE.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.