Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Castle Ffrench East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Ffrench East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.46122, -8.34573
- SMR number
- GA047-027----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W 40m, N-S 35m) defined by an overgrown bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. From S to SW the bank is incorporated into a field boundary, outside of which a band of darker vegetation indicates the fosse. Several breaches in the bank appear modern.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.