Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Graigueachullaire, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigueachullaire
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59249, -8.82242
- SMR number
- GA016-055----
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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 E-facing slope of a rise inundulating grassland. Known locally as 'Hill Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 151), this circular rath (D 46m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and anintervening fosse. The inner bank is present from Ethrough S to N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosingelement. The outer bank is overlain by a field bankfrom ENE through S to NNW. Within the interior is acircular structure of grassed-over stone (D 4.8m), possibly a house.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.