Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange (clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (clonmacnowen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.31695, -8.29502
- SMR number
- GA087-111002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Circa 8m SW of a ringfort (GA087-111----). An almost circular rath (N-S 31m, E-W 30m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fossebest preserved at W. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at E could beoriginal. Quarrying has disturbed the outer face of thebank from SW through W to NW. A CBG (GA087-111003) occupies the centre of the interior. According to Egan (1960, 13), this rath is remembered only as a children's burial ground.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.