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Ringfort - rath

Pollaphuca (Carrowrevagh ED ), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Pollaphuca (Carrowrevagh ED ), County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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