Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcloony (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcloony (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59438, -8.87807
- SMR number
- GA016-060----
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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. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W c. 45m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse from NNW through N to ESE. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives elsewhere. Gap at NE may be original. A field bank radiates from the monument at NW. A souterrain (GA016-060001-) is associated. (Costello 1903, 5)
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Gate lodgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.