Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Largan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Largan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissa-crornlech
- Coordinates
- 53.49588, -9.08397
- SMR number
- GA042-167001-
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 a ridge in undulating grassland immediately E of a stream. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 36.2m) defined by a bank, now breached in numerous places. There is a souterrain (GA042-167002-) within the interior. A graveyard (GA042-167004-) lies c. 30m to S and a standing stone (GA042-167003-) 7m to E. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 304-5)
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.