Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Treanlaur, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanlaur
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ralpeeca
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ralpeeca
- Coordinates
- 53.23939, -8.95228
- SMR number
- GA095-148----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in pastureland overlooking Galway Bay. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34m) is defined by a bank, which is obscured by trees and bushes from W through N to S. A gap at NW is modern. Field walls surround the monument from S through W to NW and at N. When inspected in November 1982 the interior was clear, level and featureless. However, aerial imagery (https://binged.it/2Kh8uza, accessed 26 April 2018) indicates that a number of buildings have been constructed in the W half of the interior. (Holt 1912, 225; McCaffrey 1952, 147, no. 18)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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. 1910 An abridged transcript of the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to parishes in, or partly in, the Barony of Dunkellin Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 6, 123-69.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.