Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Saintclerans, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saintclerans
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23210, -8.65742
- SMR number
- GA097-143----
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 part of Saintclerans Demesne. Indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosed mixed tree plantation and on the 1933 edition as a subcircular line of deciduous trees (c. 60m N-S; c. 52m E-W). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 171, no. 32a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 58m) which was defined by a 'flattened' bank of earth (Wth c. 3.6-4.2m; int. c. 1m; ext. H c. 0.6m). A large stone slab lying flat on its S side suggested to him hat it was a stone fort piled with earthen material. Some iron slag was found in the interior. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a rath or a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 June 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.