Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dúráithe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dúráithe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53357, -9.37255
- SMR number
- GA027-032----
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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 E slope of a hill overlooking Lough Corrib to S and Lough Mask to N. Subcircular rath (NNW-SSE 39m) in fair condition. Defined by two banks and an intervening fosse; the outer bank survives only from NNW to N. A gap at E may be original. A field bank radiates from the monument at SW.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.