Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Castlebin North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlebin North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30644, -8.48652
- SMR number
- GA086-073----
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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 low-lying grassland. Subcircular rath (WSW-ENE 36.7m, NNW-SSE 32.8m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Both banks and fosse survive only from NW to N; elsewhere a degraded inner scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap at WNW could be original.
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.