Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25611, -8.23018
- SMR number
- GA099-069----
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
Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as subcircular embanked enclosure (c. 41m N-S; c. 37m E-W) and on the 1946-7 revision as a circular mound (diam. c. 25m). A field boundary, running N-S, clipped it at E. On inspection in April 1983 no visible surface trace survived.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.