Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartronsheela, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartronsheela
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26175, -8.41587
- SMR number
- GA098-074----
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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 hillock in undulating grassland. An almost circular rath (N-S 38m, E-W 37.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank with traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank from W to NW. A field boundary overlies the inner bank from SSE to SW. A grass-covered rectangular structure (E-W; L 15.2m, Wth 6.2m), possibly a house, is visible within the interior at W; a large depression infringes upon it to N. A roughly rectangular annexe (E-W; L 28.5, Wth 26m max.), defined by a bank of earth and stone, extends from the rath at N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.