Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Derryglassaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryglassaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42022, -8.61180
- SMR number
- GA059-028----
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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 W-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Circular rath (D 49m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW through N to NE; elsewhere a road encircles the monument. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2.9m) at N. The interior rises towards the centre and there is an oval hollow (NW-SE 6m, NE-SW 4.2m) in N sector. A probable souterrain (GA059-028001-) is associated. (Claffey 1983, 151-2)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.