Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rinville West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24654, -8.97545
- SMR number
- GA094-063----
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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 a gentle S-facing slope in grassland. Described by Athy (1914, 139) as a small wooded enclosure that may have been a rath or 'merely a plantation protected by a bank'. McCaffrey (1952, 124, no. 28) classified it as an ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 28m) defined by a bank and fosse. The remains of a stone revetment were visible on the inner face of the bank. The monument has been levelled and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
References
Lynch Athy, M. 1914 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the Barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway: IV - Oranmore Parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 129-98.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.