Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackafinna North,Lackafinna South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackafinna North,Lackafinna South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnagalhagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagalhagh
- Coordinates
- 53.24157, -8.57001
- SMR number
- GA097-122----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by a scarp from ESE through S to NW. No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives from NW through E to ESE but its line is preserved in a curving field wall from NW to NE. A low earthen mound in N sector of the interior appears to be natural.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.