Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curragh More (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh More (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Curraghmore Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.27220, -8.66872
- SMR number
- GA096-078----
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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. Classified by Cody (1989, 191-2, no. 44) as a
subcircular rath (31m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives at N. A field wall cuts through the monument at NW and NE and the interior is used as a vegetable garden.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 December 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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.