Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Marshallspark,treanlaur, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marshallspark,treanlaur
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24224, -8.95980
- SMR number
- GA095-080----
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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
In undulating pastureland. This circular rath (int. diam. c. 30.5m), in fair condition, is defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The inner bank and inner fosse are visible all round. The middle bank and outer fosse survive from E through S to NNW. A field wall cuts through them at NNW and E and no visible surface trace of them survives to its NE. The outer bank is visible only at WSW. Holt (1912, 224-5) noted that when an attempt was made to plant the interior, flagstones were encountered which he presumed were the roof of a souterrain. The SW half of the rath was overgrown with brambles and bushes. (McCaffrey 1952, 146-7, no. 16)
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1985).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
References
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.