Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloran, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloran
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28130, -8.78580
- SMR number
- GA096-061----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (36.2m NE-SW; 34.6m NW-SE) defined by a bank. A field wall overlies the monument from NNW through E to SSE. A possible souterrain (GA096-061001-) is associated. (Cody 1989, 252-3, no. 78)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.