Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pollaphuca (carrowrevagh Ed ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollaphuca (carrowrevagh Ed )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54126, -8.75372
- SMR number
- GA030-109----
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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 low-lying grassland overlooking bogland to S. Circular ringfort (D 33m), in fair condition, defined by a stone-faced bank from S through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Possible entrance at SW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and ESE. Centrally placed within the interior is a circular earthen mound (D 12m) into which a funnel-shaped, partially subterranean, drystone structure (L 10.5m, Wth 3.2m) has been built; a curving drystone wall (L 1.1m) survives at E end of it: possibly a house or a limekiln.
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
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.