Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Tristaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27993, -8.25957
- SMR number
- GA087-214----
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
On a hillock in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 40m, E-W 34m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank survives from N through E to S, and elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at E could be original. In NNW sector of interior is a hollow which is probably the result of quarrying. A ringfort (GA087-213----) lies c. 150m to NNW.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.