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Ringfort - rath

Quinaltagh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Quinaltagh, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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