Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonmain, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmain
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24463, -8.43446
- SMR number
- GA098-079001-
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 undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by an earthen bank from E through S to W and by a scarp from W to N. A field boundary cuts across the monument from W to N. A children's burial ground (GA098-079----) lies immediately to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.