Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farranablake East,gortnahown, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranablake East,gortnahown
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28785, -8.74976
- SMR number
- GA084-075----
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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 S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (39m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a bank which is overlain by a field wall at E. (Knox 1918b, 123)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 December 2017
References
Knox, H.T. 1917-18 Ballygurraun and Raheen group of works in earth and stone. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 101-124.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.