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Ringfort - unclassified

Clonbrock Demesne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Clonbrock Demesne, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonbrock Demesne
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Dark Fort
Coordinates
53.39519, -8.37319
SMR number
GA061-057----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level grassland within the former Clonbrock estate. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (E-W c. 35m); what survives is a semicircular area defined from SE through W to NW by a bank and external fosse. Traces of a possible outer bank survive from S through W to NW. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and SE, to N of which the former line of the enclosing elements is obscured by trees and bushes. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 74 (GA074-023----).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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