Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farranablake East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranablake East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28550, -8.74760
- SMR number
- GA084-073----
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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
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 45m) defined by a collapsed
drystone wall best preserved from WNW to NNW, elsewhere field walls overlie the enclosing element. A barn and water tank have been erected in the NE quadrant of the interior. There is a souterrain (GA084-073001-) in the SW quadrant.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.