Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fortification
Townparks (galway By., Rahoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (galway By., Rahoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26691, -9.04834
- SMR number
- GA094-112----
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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 the point of land, near the present Nimmo's Pier, which forms W bank of the River Corrib, 0.5km S of Galway town (GA094-100----). Built in 1643 along with a sister fort on E bank of the river (GA094-057----) which it may have closely resembled. Known as Rintinane fort after the 17th-C name for this point, it is shown on the pictorial map of Galway c. 1650. No visible surface trace of it survives and its exact position is uncertain. (Walsh 1988, 120-1)
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
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.