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Ringfort - rath

Mweeloon,Prospecthill, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mweeloon, Prospecthill, 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
Mweeloon,Prospecthill
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathmore
Latest-edition OS map
Rathmore
Coordinates
53.23090, -8.97755
SMR number
GA094-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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 the summit of a hillock in grassland. This well-preserved subcircular rath (58m E-W; 51m N-S) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse are visible all round. The outer bank survives from N through E to W and is overlain by field walls from NE to E and from SW to W. A causewayed gap (Wth 5.8m) at S may mark the original entrance. Internal divisions, defined by grassed-over stony banks, are evident in the SW quadrant and E sector of the interior. (Holt 1912, 227; McCaffrey 1952, 120-21, no. 32; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 395)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 27 February 2018

References

Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1962 Shell Guide to Ireland. London. Ebury Press.

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.

Nearby in the register

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

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