Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barnpark,somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnpark,somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltraghgarraun Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caltraghgarraun Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.26837, -8.22700
- SMR number
- GA100-032----
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 undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (NW-SE 44m) defined by a scarp from E through S to NW; elsewhere field clearance has destroyed the enclosing element. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE along which the td. and B. boundaries run. A CBG (GA100-032001-) is located within the interior. The find spot of the early Iron Age Somerset hoard lies c. 65m to SE of this monument (Raftery 1960, 1-40).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.