Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rinville West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinville West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25317, -8.94778
- SMR number
- GA095-133----
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 S-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (30.5m N-S; 28.4m E-W) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible on all sides except S the side where a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from SW through N to NE. A gap (Wth 3m) at N may be original. (McCaffrey 1952, 144, no. 14a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.