Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Paddock, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paddock
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59432, -8.76826
- SMR number
- GA017-143----
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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 the brow of a hill in rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 26m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SW through W to N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survives from N to NE where a field bank abuts the monument. (Neary 1914, 122, no. 127)
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.