Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrankyle West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrankyle West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24686, -8.68184
- SMR number
- GA096-101----
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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
In recently cleared farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 157, no. 44) as a roughly circular 'Earthen fort' (c. 45.7m E-W; c. 30.5m N-S) which was 'much obscured by rubble and trees'. On inspection in June 1983 no visible surface trace of it survived and a silage pit occupied its interior. Aerial imagery (https://binged.it/2wQ0Fvi, last accessed 7 September 2018) shows that a shed now occupies the site. The field boundary curving around it from SSW through N to NE may mirror the line of the enclosing element of the rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 September 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.