Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Treanlaur, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanlaur
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24059, -8.95620
- SMR number
- GA095-146----
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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 mixed farmland, overlooking an inlet of Mweeloon Bay to the SW. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 28m) defined by a low grassy bank (base Wth 5.2m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.2m); the latter is not visible at W. (Holt 1912, 225; McCaffrey 1952, 147, no. 17)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.