Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brackloon (Athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (Athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28777, -8.56407
- SMR number
- GA085-010----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland, c. 220m SW of the Raford River. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (77m NE-SW; 68m NW-SE) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank, which is overlain by a number of field walls, is most clearly visible from E to SSE; a scarp forms the enclosing element from NNW to NE. The fosse is extant from E through S to NNW. Gaps at E and SSW appear to be modern.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.