Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Abbeyland Great, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland Great
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22144, -8.12743
- SMR number
- GA100-001----
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 gently undulating grassland. When inspected in February 1985 this very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 39m) was defined by a bank overlain by a field wall from S to SW; elsewhere a scarp formed the enclosing element. Traces of stone-facing were visible on the inner face of bank. Quarrying had encroached upon the monument from NE to E and from SW to NW. The current OSi digitalglobe imagery suggests that the monument has since been levelled.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.