Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killavoher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killavoher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Comers Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.57195, -8.66506
- SMR number
- GA017-108----
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 rise in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NE-SW 39m, NW-SE 34m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from SE through S to SW. A road cuts the enclosing element at NNW and ENE. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 18 (GA018-023----)
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
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.