Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Drinaun (killian By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drinaun (killian By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50571, -8.33479
- SMR number
- GA047-039----
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 grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (E-W 34m, N-S 33m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse survives from NNW through E to S, and the outer bank at W and E. An enclosure (GA047-040----) lies c. 200m to W.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.