Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunsandle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunsandle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24029, -8.64370
- SMR number
- GA097-097----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in grassland, formerly within Dunsandle Demesne. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m). The enclosing element is planted with trees. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a rath that was reused as a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.