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Ringfort - rath

Brackloon (Athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Brackloon, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brackloon (Athenry By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.28537, -8.58324
SMR number
GA085-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a prominent rise in grassland, c. 30m E of the Raford River. Well-preserved subcircular rath (43m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by a bank with traces of an external fosse at NE. Quarrying has disturbed the bank at W and NW and a number of gaps are evident; one at S (Wth 3.5m) may mark the original entrance. A shed has been built into the outer face of the bank at E. Traces of internal stone-facing survive along it at S. A children's burial ground (GA085-011001-) lies within the NW quadrant of the interior. Along its E limits an L-shaped hollow may mark the site of a souterrain (GA085-011002-).

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 6 January 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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