Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Addergoole (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Addergoole (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Colgans Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.22234, -8.31197
- SMR number
- GA099-001----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low ridge in low-lying grassland. A stream flows just outside the monument at E. Oval rath(72m N-S; 53.5m E-W), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from SW to NW. The bank is heavily overgrown with trees and bushes from SW to N. This monument also extends onto the adjoining OS sheet (SMR 107:004).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 October 2016
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.