Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Quinaltagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quinaltagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63790, -8.80811
- SMR number
- GA005-099----
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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 S-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Known locally as 'Hernon's Rath' (Neary 1914, 121, no. 69), this well-preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 37m, E-W 33m) is defined by two stone-faced banks and an intervening fosse. There are traces of a scarp outside the outer bank from SE through S to SW. A gap (Wth 2m) at SSW could be original. A number of field boundaries cut the monument. Abutting the external face of the outer bank at W is a grassed-over circular structure (D 4.5m); possibly a house (GA005-099003-). Within the interior is a CBG (GA005-099002-) and a souterrain (GA005-099001-).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.