Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathmorrissy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmorrissy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathmorrissy
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmorrissy
- Coordinates
- 53.28538, -8.79807
- SMR number
- GA084-123----
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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 grassland. When visited in February 1984, this poorly preserved subcircular rath (52m NE-SW) was defined by a much-degraded and overgrown earthen bank and external fosse. Traces of a collapsed N-S running field wall were evident immediately outside the fosse at E and another E-W running field wall was visible outside it at N. The bank was best preserved from SW to W but from E to S most of it had been dug out. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 5.2m) was evident at E. A possible souterrain (GA084-123001-) is associated. On a revisit in April 1991, it was noted that the bank had been partially bulldozed from S to SW and the resulting material was pushed into the fosse.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.