Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rinville West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathgortnamona
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathgortnamona
- Coordinates
- 53.25321, -8.94984
- SMR number
- GA095-126----
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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 a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 32m E-W; c. 25m N-S). According to Lynch Athy (1914, 137), the monument had been 'levelled to the foundations since 1840'. No visible surface trace survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 145)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG.
Date of upload: 11 October 2016
References
Lynch Athy, M. 1914 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the Barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway: IV - Oranmore Parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 8, 129-98.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.