Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bunanraun,liss (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunanraun,liss (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46745, -9.07080
- SMR number
- GA042-038----
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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 a slight rise in gently undulating grassland. A circular ringfort (D 28m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from W to NE and is overlain by field walls from NE to E and from SE to W. The fosse has been filled in from ENE through E to SE, and the outer bank survives only at S. There is a causeway across the fosse at SE. The td. boundary cuts the monument at NE and SW. Within the interior is a CBG (GA042-048001-) and a roughly square stone-lined hollow (L/Wth 1m sq.).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.