Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rinn (Oranmore ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinn (Oranmore ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26600, -8.90426
- SMR number
- GA095-122----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in tillage. Referred to by McCaffrey (1952, 141, no. 44a) as both as a ‘hut circle’
(diam. c. 14.3m) and a ‘fort’; it was defined by a bank with an entrance gap at SE. The interior was filled with field rubble. All that is now visible is a roughly circular mound in the corner of a field.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.