Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcreevanty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcreevanty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismore
- Coordinates
- 53.55197, -8.87999
- SMR number
- GA029-102----
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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 W end of an E-W running ridge, 140m SSE of another ringfort (GA029-100----). Very poorly preserved oval rath (E-W c. 31m, N-S c. 24m) defined by a bank with possible traces of a second. A field boundary, running N-S, cuts the monument at NNW and SSW, and all that is visible to E of it is a wide gravelly scar marking the line of one, possibly two levelled banks. To W of it, the arc of a bank still survives, curving from SSW through W to NNW, outside of which another surface scar again suggests the former presence of an outer bank.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.