Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlahan (eyre),cloonlahan (geoghegan),derreenboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlahan (eyre),cloonlahan (geoghegan),derreenboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23193, -8.31747
- SMR number
- GA099-064----
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
In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 33.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from NE through E to SW. A children's burial ground (GA099-064001-) lies in the NW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.