Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaloura East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaloura East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55175, -8.76708
- SMR number
- GA030-079----
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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 hilly grassland. Well- preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 36.5m, N-S 34m) defined by two stone-lined earthen banks and an intervening fosse. Well-defined entrance at SE. Within the interior is an oval-shaped hollow (L 7m), long axis running NW-SE, the remains of a possible souterrain. Immediately to SE are the grassed-over foundation lines of a square stone structure (L/Wth 4m), possibly a house. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SSE. Two ringforts (GA030-080----, GA030-081----) lie c. 100m and c. 200m to W respectively.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 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.