Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Caltraghcreen,moneen (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltraghcreen,moneen (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.41038, -8.54554
- SMR number
- GA059-008----
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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 SE-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Known locally as 'King's Fort', this is a well-preserved circular rath (D 34.5m) defined by an inner scarp, two banks and two intervening fosses. Traces of a possible third fosse are visible only at N. There is a probable souterrain (GA059-008001-) in the interior
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.