Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Clooncah (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncah (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33841, -8.55478
- SMR number
- GA085-031----
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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
In undulating marshy pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives, however its outline is evident on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2fKQ3Yq, last accessed 7 November 2016). This monument also extends on to OS sheet 72 (GA072-068----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 7 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.