Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31484, -8.41664
- SMR number
- GA086-155----
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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 ridge in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (ENE-WSW c. 30.2m, NNW-SSE 26.5m), in fair condition, defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank from SSW through W to NNW. A field bank curving from NE to SSE may follow the line of the outer bank. Another field bank cuts the monument at SSW and SSE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to S of it. In SW quadrant there is a rectangular grassy hollow (L 6.4m, Wth 1.7m-2.5m) up to 0.8m in depth, its long axis running ENE-WSW; a possible souterrain. A ringfort (GA086-156----) lies 150m to SE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.