Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rinville East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24936, -8.93651
- SMR number
- GA095-124----
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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 rough pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 47.3m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an
intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible all round and some internal stone revetment is visible at SSE. The fosse survives apart from a section at E where a later NNW-SSE running field wall clips the monument. The outer bank is visible from NW to NE and from SSE to W. Numerous gaps in both banks appear to be modern. (Athy 1914, 133; McCaffrey 1952, 141-2, no. 9)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.