Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lurgan (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Strawberryhill Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.60214, -8.81743
- SMR number
- GA016-121----
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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 slight rise in undulating pastureland overlooking bogland to N and S. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure and classified by Neary (1914, 123, no. 153) as a 'Circular, earthen fort'. All that survives is a barely discernible rise (D c. 36m), outside of which traces of a fosse are visible.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.