Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Ashfield (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashfield (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.42356, -8.49759
- SMR number
- GA060-005----
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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 an E-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (N-S 39.5m, E-W 34m) defined by two banks and ar/intervening fosse. A gap at E may be original. Apace from SW quadrant where there is a souterrain (GA060-005001-), the interior is disturbed by a series of penannular banks and fosses, probable lazy-beds.
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.