Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ceapach Chorcóige Thoir, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceapach Chorcóige Thoir
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenard Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.53689, -9.29188
- SMR number
- GA027-004----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a natural rise in a wooded area within the demesne of Ashford House. A very overgrown subcircular rath (N-S 44m) in fair condition. Defined by a bank, external fosse and outer bank, but no trace of the latter survives from N to SE. Cut by paths at N, ENE and S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.