Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlahan (Geoghegan), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlahan (Geoghegan)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23134, -8.31013
- SMR number
- GA099-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
In level grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (c. 36m NE-SW; c. 24m NW-SE). The monument has been leveled and no visible surface trace survives. It was known of locally as a 'fort' and is probably a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.