Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortaganny (boyounagh Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaganny (boyounagh Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62958, -8.63717
- SMR number
- GA006-069----
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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 rath (N-S 27.6m), in fair condition, defined by a bank with traces of an external fosse from W to NW. A field boundary cuts the monument at NE and SE and no visible surface trace survives to E of it. Two sheds lie within the interior.
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.