Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltivna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltivna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65403, -8.69370
- SMR number
- GA005-075----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying grassland with bogland to N and E. Known locally as 'McGuires Fort' (Neary 1914, 119, no. 16), this poorly preserved circular rath (D 35.6m) is defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank; quarried out at SSW. The fosse and outer bank are present from NW through N to NE. A field bank cuts the monument at NE and S. A souterrain (GA005-005----) lies c. 275m to W.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.