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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26445, -8.66436
- SMR number
- GA097-090002-
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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 low-lying grassland. The old course of the Dooyertha River flowed around this poorly preserved subcircular rath (27.7m E-W) from W through N to NE and separated it from a moated site (GA097-090001-) immediately to the W. The present course of the river now flows to the S of both monuments. Only the S half of the rath survives; it is defined by a bank and external fosse from E through S to W. McCaffrey (1952, 168, no. 5) noted an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.7m) at E but no visible surface trace of it survives. There is a children's burial ground (GA097-090003-) in the SE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 December 2017
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.