Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cloonagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60703, -8.79703
- SMR number
- GA017-072----
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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 slopes of a rise surrounded by bogland from N through S to W. Described by Neary (1914, 114, no. 140), as a much-ravelled 'circular, earthen fort'; known locally as 'Cloonagh Small Fort'. 'From a small arc', defined by a scarp, fosse and outer bank, he inferred the 'diameter of the garth was 120ft [36.5m]' (ibid.). No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.