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
- 53.28537, -8.58324
- SMR number
- GA085-011----
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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 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.