Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gloves South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gloves South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.29310, -8.66872
- SMR number
- GA084-078----
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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. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m). Described by Cody (1989, 289, no. 113) as a low grass-covered circular mound (H c. 1m) delimited by a gently sloping edge. It was known locally as a ‘Lisheen’.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.