Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claddagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claddagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54153, -8.70176
- SMR number
- GA030-039----
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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 rise in low-lying grassland. Subcircular ringfort (N-S 37m, E-W 32m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Inner and outer stone-facing is visible intermittently on the inner bank. A field wall overlies the outer bank from NE through E to SE. There is an entrance at NW.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.