Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glennaskehy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennaskehy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Garrynlassa Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Garrynlassa Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.26613, -8.45424
- SMR number
- GA098-108----
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 S-facing slope in grassland. Subcircular rath (30m E-W; 28.2m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank. Several modern gaps are evident and quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element at W. A series of modern field banks surround the monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 January 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.