Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunmore Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunmore Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61132, -8.74996
- SMR number
- GA017-083----
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
On a prominent hillock in grassland. Known locally as 'Henegen's Fort' (Neary 1914, 113, no. 124), this poorly preserved oval rath (E-W 38.5m, N-S 24m) is defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The fosse survives from W through N to NE, and the outer bank from W to N. A gap at E may be original. A ringfort (GA017-084----) lies c. 300m to E.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.