Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25288, -8.23119
- SMR number
- GA099-179----
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
On a gentle rise in level grassland. Marked on the 1st and 3rd (1946-7) editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure with another possible enclosure adjoining it to N. Only the S end of the latter feature is depicted. The S enclosure consists of a poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 27.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) is visible all round. The fosse (Wth 2.5m) and outer bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.4m) are visible from W to NW. Either of two gaps at E and W could be original. The N enclosure is defined by a bank from SSE to SSW, otherwise no visible surface trace survives. It is unclear whether the latter feature is an annexe or whether this is the remains of a conjoined rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.