Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tobernaclug, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobernaclug
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62889, -8.70654
- SMR number
- GA005-109----
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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 a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular ringfort (N-S 42m, E-W 39.5m), in fair condition, cut by a number of field boundaries. It is defined by two stone-revetted banks and an intervening fosse, but the outer bank is present only from NE to SE, and at NW. There is a well-defined entrance (Wth 2m) at SE. Just inside the inner bank at W is a linear nettle-filled hollow (L 8m, Wth 2m) running E-W and up to 1.2m in depth; a possible souterrain. An earthwork (GA005-110----) lies 130m to SE.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.