Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlegrove West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegrove West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismiggeen
- Coordinates
- 53.56545, -8.94063
- SMR number
- GA029-047----
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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 level grassland. Well-preserved pear-shaped rath (N-S 64m, E-W 63m) defined by a bank and external fosse best preserved from NE to SE. Numerous cattle gaps breach the bank, and the fosse has been quarried out at NE and SE. A field wall overlies the bank from NW to NE. There is a CBG (GA029-047001-) within the interior.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.