Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismulcrone
- Coordinates
- 53.64058, -8.75313
- SMR number
- GA005-028----
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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
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by an earthen bank that may have been revetted with stone. The E half of the monument is obscured by overgrowth. Neary (1914, 117, no. 60) classified it as 'A circular, earthen fort' enclosed by a bank and outer fosse; no visible surface trace of the latter survives. A ringfort (GA005-029----) lies c. 100m to SW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.