Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Curragh (clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (clonmacnowen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31411, -8.28648
- SMR number
- GA087-059----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hummock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 34m, E-W 29m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present at S and elsewhere a scarp, overlain from SSW to W by a field boundary, forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from NE through E to S. A gap (Wth 4m) at SE may be original. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements from S to SW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.