Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilshanvy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshanvy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57061, -9.03091
- SMR number
- GA015-047002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Within S enclosure of a conjoined ringfort (GA015-047001-). The visible remains comprise a long linear hollow, a short oval hollow and a partially intact chamber, all running on a NNW-SSE axis (L c. 33m). The intact section is just inside the ringfort bank at NNW, where a modern breach, now almost completely choked, allows a view of drystone-built side-walls and a lintelled roof. According to the landowner, this intact section of the souterrain continues towards NNW for a further c. 4m before terminating in a squared-off end wall.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.