Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmorrissy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmorrissy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.29130, -8.79017
- SMR number
- GA084-122----
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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 gentle SW-facing slope in pastureland. Subcircular rath (56m NE-SW; 52m NW-SE), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse that are heavily overgrown with bracken and bushes. There is a causewayed entrance gap at SE. A modern field boundary cuts through the monument at NE and SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
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
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.