Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlara South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlara South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59890, -8.51518
- SMR number
- GA019-006----
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
In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 42m, N-S 39m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A trackway cuts the monument at NE and NW; no visible surface trace of the fosse or outer bank survive to N of it. A pit has encroached upon the enclosing elements at E, and a field boundary cuts the monument at N and S. Gaps at SE and SW may be original.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.