Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ardnasodan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnasodan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40935, -8.79338
- SMR number
- GA058-006----
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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
In level grassland. Oval rath (NE-SW 45.5m, E-W 37m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. Possible traces of stone- facing survive intermittently on the bank. It is breached by a gap (Wth 3m) at NE and has been totally levelled and/or dug away from ESE to SE, from SW to W, and from WNW to N. The monument is cut by a field wall at NNW and SSW. A hollow (L 12m) close to the centre of the interior is probably the result of quarrying but could also mark the site of a possible souterrain.
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
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.