Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Attiflynn, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Attiflynn
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65922, -8.69423
- SMR number
- GA005-003----
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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 ridge summit in undulating grassland overlooking the Flaskagh River to N. Known locally as 'Higgin's Fort' (Neary 1914, 121, no. 29), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 34m, N-S 30.5m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone at E and by a scarp elsewhere. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at E may be original. A ringfort (GA005-004----) lies c. 250m to E.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.