Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shancloon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancloon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gortadoon Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gortadoon Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.52990, -9.03078
- SMR number
- GA028-040----
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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 a natural platform overlooking grassland to S and bogland to N. A large poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 91.5m, E-W 60.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and NE, to N of which a scarp forms the enclosing element.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.