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
- Knocknamnashee
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknamnashee
- Coordinates
- 53.24832, -8.95273
- SMR number
- GA095-131----
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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 the S-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 143, no. 12) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 47.6m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Traces of internal stone-facing were evident on the inner bank and there was a stone-lined entrance gap (Wth c. 2.7m) at E. The monument has been ploughed out and, apart from a slight hollow in the field, no visible surface trace survives. (Lynch Athy 1914, 137)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
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- Field systemunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.