Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killagh Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killagh Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31039, -8.41868
- SMR number
- GA086-157----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (N-S 48.1m, E-W 45.6m) defined by a stone-lined bank from N to E, and by a scarp from ESE to SSW. A gap at NE appears modern. The W half of the monument has been extensively quarried, and a field wall cuts it at SSW and SE. The interior contains a graveyard (GA086-157002-). There is also a possible souterrain, in NW quadrant, indicated by a rectangular nettle-filled hollow (L 10.1m, Wth c. 2.5m) running NNW-SS and averaging 0.7m in depth.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.