Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathgorgin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgorgin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lios na Gal
- Coordinates
- 53.26086, -8.68126
- SMR number
- GA096-152----
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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 level pastureland. Described by Orpen (1916, 33-5) as a circular rath (diam. c. 48m) defined by ‘two concentric circular ramparts … with intervening ditch’. A ‘trace of a souterrain’ (GA096-125001-) lay within the interior. Cody (1989, 281-2, no. 107) noted that the monument had been levelled and, apart from a slight roughness in the ground surface, no visible surface trace of it or the souterrain survived. However, the outline of the rath is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 June 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Orpen, G.H. 1915-16 The mote of Oldcastle and the castle of Rathgorgin. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 33-44.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.