Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Greenville, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenville
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44773, -8.46174
- SMR number
- GA060-102----
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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 a hill summit to S of a stream. Well-preserved roughly circular rath (D 31m) defined by an inner scarp, three banks and three intervening fosses. The outermost bank survives from S through W to N. Well-defined entrance causeway at SSW. There is a souterrain (GA060-102001-) within N sector of the interior. (Broderick 1882, 637)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 20th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.