Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Corgerry Oughter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corgerry Oughter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44058, -8.54957
- SMR number
- GA059-024----
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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 NW-facing slope of a hill. Well-preserved circular rath (D 37.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives only from N to NE. A field wall overlies the bank from N to ENE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.