Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathglass, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathglass
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28111, -8.47718
- SMR number
- GA086-216----
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
In undulating grassland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a tree clump. What survives is an overgrown roughly circular enclosure (D 25m), in fair condition, defined by a wide bank from SSW to WSW, and from NW to NNE; elsewhere a scarp (H 1.5m max.) forms the enclosing element. There is a gap (Wth 5.3m) at W. Beech trees grow along the perimeter. An enclosure (GA098-131----) lies 50m to SSW. Possibly a landscaped ringfort or a tree-ring.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.