Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
An Pollach Riabhach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Pollach Riabhach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32805, -8.96937
- SMR number
- GA082-074----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m).
Field boundaries clipped it SE and SW. McCaffrey (1952, 110) recorded that it was 'Completely effaced' during his survey of the area. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.