Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rinville West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathshanbally
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathshanbally
- Coordinates
- 53.25162, -8.95886
- SMR number
- GA095-128001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 ridge in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (34m NW-SE), in fair condition, defined
by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives all round but is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. The fosse and intermittent traces of the outer bank are visible except from N to E where the steep natural slope of the ridge provided adequate defence. A trackway cuts through the monument at WNW and ESE. According to McCaffrey (1952, 143-4, no. 14) a possible enclosure (GA095-128002-) lay immediately to the W. (Athy 1914, 138-9)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 April 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.