Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockatogher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatogher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28025, -8.62614
- SMR number
- GA097-119----
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
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (40m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse; the latter survives as a slight nettle-filled hollow from S to W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.