Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountpotter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountpotter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53480, -8.84304
- SMR number
- GA029-130----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in grassland in former demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure; on 3rd ed. (1932) it is represented as a roughly circular tree-lined depression (D c. 45m). No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ringfort reused as a tree-ring: the 3rd ed. shows over a dozen of the latter within the demesne.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.