Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumbane, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbane
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65566, -8.72254
- SMR number
- GA005-046----
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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 tillage. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). According to Neary (1914, 118, no. 52), it was known as 'Drumbane Fort'. He described it as a 'circular, earthen fort … The diameter of the garth is 150 ft. [45.7m], ditch about 6ft. [1.8m], but the bank and rampart have disappeared.' Within the interior was 'a rubble-heap, the remains of a stone structure'; possibly a house or a cairn. No visible surface trace survives. An earthwork (GA005-048----) lay c. 80m to S.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.