Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bastioned fort
Rinmore, County Galway, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.