Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Blindwell, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blindwell
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57633, -8.99410
- SMR number
- GA015-041----
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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
In grassland within Blindwell Demesne. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a D-shaped tree-planted enclosure. What is visible is a poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 29m) defined by a low round-topped curving earthen bank (Wth 2.8m, H 0.35m) and an external fosse (Wth 1.8m). These are visible from E through S to W, but appear to have been truncated along N side where a straight drainage trench forms the enclosing element. Possibly a landscape feature, but its morphology suggests that it could be a landscaped ringfort.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.