Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Droim Snámha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Droim Snámha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48897, -9.49721
- SMR number
- GA039-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the summit of a natural rise in rough grazing and bogland. Subcircular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 32m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is present from S through W to NE. A gap at E could be original. There is a souterrain in the interior (GA039-017001-).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.