Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Cartron (clonmacnowen By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (clonmacnowen By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26440, -8.29503
- SMR number
- GA099-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in undulating grassland. A well-preserved circular rath (D 26m) defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The outermost bank survives only from NNE to ENE. There is an entrance at SE. Within the interior is a rectangular hollow (L 7m, Wth 2m), its long axis running N-S; possibly the remains of a souterrain. An enclosure (GA099-055002-) lies c. 5m to N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.