Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Corgerry Eighter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgerry Eighter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44500, -8.52769
- SMR number
- GA059-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The innermost bank is present from S through W to N, outside of which runs a trackway. The remaining banks and fosses survive only from N to NE.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.