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
- Crockancavy Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.66341, -8.68772
- SMR number
- GA005-059----
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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 summit of a ridge in low- lying grassland. Known locally as 'Lis a Roch' (Neary 1914, 119, no. 27), this well-preserved oval rath (N-S 32m, E-W 23.5m) is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank; the latter is overlain by a field wall from W through N to SE. There is an entrance gap (Wth 6m) at 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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.