Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oranhill (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oranhill (Dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Oran Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Oran Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.25519, -8.93111
- SMR number
- GA095-103----
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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 a prominent ridge in rough pastureland. This irregularly shaped rath (c. 72.5m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW), in fair condition, is defined by a bank and external fosse. Several gaps in the bank appear to be modern. A field wall cuts across the monument at NW and S. A souterrain (GA095-103001-) lies in the NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.