Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonineen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonineen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22673, -8.25406
- SMR number
- GA099-061----
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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 slight rise in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked subcircular enclosure (c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) and on the 1946-7 revision of the map as a more oval enclosure (c. 61m N-S; c. 43m E-W) with an enclosed tree plantation in the SW quadrant of the interior. Apart from a raised platform, no visible surface trace survives of the enclosing element and the trees have also been removed. Possibly a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.