Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Castle Ffrench, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Ffrench
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lispheerish
- Coordinates
- 53.46395, -8.35281
- SMR number
- GA047-018----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope in undulating grassland. Almost circular rath (E-W 39m, N-S 38m) defined by a bank. According to local information, there was formerly a fosse and outer bank but these were levelled some years ago. Traces of a rectangular enclosure (L 17.5m, Wth 9.5m), enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with a possible entrance at E, lie within W half of interior. It may be associated.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.