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Ringfort - rath

Lecarrownagappoge,Meanus, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lecarrownagappoge, Meanus, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lecarrownagappoge,Meanus
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.23236, -8.44888
SMR number
GA098-115----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the W end of a glacial ridge in undulating grassland. This large well-preserved subcircular rath (52.5m E-W; 46.5m N-S) is defined by a scarp, three banks and three intervening fosses. The central scarp is evident throughout. The inner bank is visible from WSW to NNE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The middle bank survives from E to ESE and from WSW to ENE; from ESE to WSW a scarp is visible. The outermost bank survives from NW through E to SW; elsewhere its line is preserved in a curving field boundary. The three fosses are extant all round. There is a well-defined entrance causeway (Wth 12m) at E. A souterrain (GA098-115001-) lies in the W sector of the interior. Knox’s plan (1918a, 78) includes a possible annexe at NW. No visible surface trace of this feature survives. (Westropp 1919, 183-4)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 12 January 2018

References

Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.

Knox, H.T. 1918b The Masonbrook rings and mound and their relation to other similar works. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 10, 71-96.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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