Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncon East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncon East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62265, -8.52802
- SMR number
- GA018-006----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 32m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present at NW; elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts the monument at NNW and SSW. (Knight c. 1975, 111; Conway c. 1980, 15)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.