Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Finnure, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnure
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22453, -8.40627
- SMR number
- GA098-103----
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 low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 45m) defined by a bank, which is
breached by numerous gaps and is overgrown with conifer trees. Two small sheds abut the outer face of the enclosing element at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.