Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cloonyconaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonyconaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28195, -8.51403
- SMR number
- GA086-089----
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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 E end of a ridge. Poorly preserved irregularly shaped rath (WNW-ESE 21m) defined by an inner bank from W to NW and from E to S. Traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank survive from W to N. The td. boundary cuts the monument at S and W, and no visible surface trace survives to SW of it. A gap at SE 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
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.