Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackafinna South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackafinna South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tonawausa
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tonawausa
- Coordinates
- 53.24245, -8.57880
- SMR number
- GA097-126----
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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 the W-facing slope of a hill in pastureland. This subcircular rath (42.5m N-S; 40m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from NW through N to NE and from SW to W. A field wall overlies the inner bank from NE to S and another overlies the outer bank from SSW to SW. A wide causewayed gap (Wth 15m) at S is modern. Another rath (GA097-127----) lies c. 80m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.