Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghlisk, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghlisk
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54281, -8.82187
- SMR number
- GA029-001----
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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 S-facing slope overlooking marshy land. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 51m, E-W 48m) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from E to S, and a scarp forms the enclosing element from NE to E and from SW toWNW; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A gap at E could be original. A field fence has been built on the line of the outer bank from NW to E. There is a souterrain (GA029-001001-) within the interior. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 447; Weir 1980, 151)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.