Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Castlegar East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegar East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40315, -8.29978
- SMR number
- GA061-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland within the former Castlegar Demesne. Circular rath (D 30m), in fair condition, defined by three banks and three fosses. Subsequently reused and modified as a landscape feature when stone steps were inserted into gaps at ESE and WSW in the inner and middle banks respectively. A later (and now collapsed) wall was built on top of the inner bank, while the outer face of the outer bank was reinforced with stone. Within the interior is a low circular mound (D c. 18m) and the remains of a structure named 'Cottage' on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. A ringfort (GA061-037----) lies c. 130m 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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.