Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Nurserypark Or Corrabaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nurserypark Or Corrabaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.36202, -8.72186
- SMR number
- GA071-073----
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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 rise in otherwise low-lying grassland. Oval rath (E-W 38.3m, N-S 20.8m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from SSW to WNW.
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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.