Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lomaunaghbaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lomaunaghbaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rampark Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.54891, -8.71972
- SMR number
- GA030-094----
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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
In grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 33m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is stone-faced internally. There is a well-defined entrance gap (Wth 2.3m) at ESE. A band of field-clearance rubble is piled up against the outer bank from WSW through W to N. A field wall overlies this bank at S. Within the interior are a number of randomly placed limestone boulders. A few fields to N, the landowner discovered a number of 'small human bones' while digging a trench: not located.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.