Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cregg (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cistvaen
- Coordinates
- 53.38897, -8.95930
- SMR number
- GA070-054----
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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
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 56m) defined by the arc of a grassed-over drystone wall from NE to SE. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S, to W of which only slight traces of the enclosing element are visible. Stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 28; Claffey 1983, 156)
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.