Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardacong, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardacong
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnaportagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnaportagh
- Coordinates
- 53.53855, -8.84797
- SMR number
- GA029-012----
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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
In tillage overlooking marshy land to SW. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 75m, E-W c. 50m). No visible surface trace survives. Probably a bivallate ringfort as Costello (1903, 2-3) noted the existence of 'two mounds and intervening ditch'. The inner face of the inner bank contained 'several large stones still remaining and it was probably when perfect, faced with these boulders' (ibid).
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.