Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Springfield (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Springfield (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23366, -8.34678
- SMR number
- GA099-184----
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 scrubland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (33.2m E-W; 30.2m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is extant from N through E to SW. The W half of the monument was obscured by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.