Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Flaskagh More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flaskagh More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cartron Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.66982, -8.68298
- SMR number
- GA005-053----
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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 the brow of a hill in gently rolling grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m) and classified by Neary (1914, 120, no. 26) as 'a circular, earthen rath'. Only a vegetation band marks the site today. On his location map, Neary (ibid., 126) confuses its location with that of GA005-054----. A probable souterrain (GA005-053001-) is associated.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.