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Ringfort - rath

Newcastle (Aughrim Par.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newcastle (Aughrim Par.), County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newcastle (Aughrim Par.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.29185, -8.37061
SMR number
GA087-196----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a hummock in low-lying marshland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) and on 3rd ed. (1946) as on oval enclosure (c. 35m) by c. 25m) flanked at E by an annexe-like appendage. What is visible are two contiguous platforms (18m by > 15m and 38m by 23.4m) around which are a series of irregular field banks and some patches of tillage ridges. While the map designations are indicative of a ringfort, the visible remains are probably tillage plots.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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