Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blindwell, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blindwell
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58807, -8.99433
- SMR number
- GA015-026----
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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 otherwise level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 36m) defined by a bank from S through W to NNE which is overlain by a field wall. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A band of conifers occupy W half of the interior. Reused as a landscape feature.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.