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
- 53.55191, -8.77036
- SMR number
- GA030-081----
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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
Circa 100m W of a ringfort (GA030-081----). Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 41m, N-S 39m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SE through W to N and is overlain by a field wall from SE to SW. A scarp forms the enclosing element from N to SE. Traces of outer stone-facing survive at S. The fosse and outer bank are visible intermittently throughout. Within the interior is a subrectangular mound of earth and stone (N-S; L 7m, Wth 6m) with a central depression (D 2m), probably a house.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.