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Bastioned fort

Rinmore, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bastioned fort, Rinmore, 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
Rinmore
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rinmore or Cromwells Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Rinmore or Cromwells Fort
Coordinates
53.26873, -9.03287
SMR number
GA094-057----

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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 seashore 1.5km ESE of Galway town (GA094-100----). A quadrangular earthen artillery fort (L/Wth 30m) with salient angle-bastions at each corner which is surrounded by an irregular fosse. The entrance, via a causeway, was midway along E side. The NE and SE bastions survive intact but NW is damaged by a 19th-C butt, and whole SW part of the fort has been eroded by the sea. Built in 1643, along with a sister fort near Nimmo's Pier (GA094-099002-), to command the sea approaches to the harbour. (Walsh 1988; Kerrigan 1980, 136; O'Dowd 1985, 28-9, 38-9)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

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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