Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonigny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonigny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.34723, -8.36286
- SMR number
- GA074-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a hillock in gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 36m, E-W 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. From NE to E the internal face of the inner bank is faced with stone. A gap (Wth 3.7m) at S may be original. A low bank of earth and stone (L 8m) radiates from the monument at S; possibly associated. A ringfort (GA074-033----) lies c. 150m to SW.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.