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
- Scullys Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Scullys Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.23060, -8.34775
- SMR number
- GA099-185----
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 flat tillage. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly heart-shaped enclosure. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is depicted by a curving line of hachures from SE through W to NNE. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.