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Ringfort - rath

Belview Or Lissareaghaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Belview Or Lissareaghaun, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Belview Or Lissareaghaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisnaraha
Latest-edition OS map
Lisnaraha
Coordinates
53.22960, -8.21272
SMR number
GA100-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Encompassing a hummock in pastureland; formerly part of Belview Demesne. Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosed large subcircular mixed tree plantation (c. 94m N-S; c. 92m E-W)named 'Lisnaraha'. On the 1946 revision of the map the trees have been removed and a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is visible within a larger enclosure (diam. c. 93m). The central enclosure (35m N-S; 27m E-W) is defined by a denuded scarp (H 1.4-1.65m). The interior had been levelled off. Four wide cultivation ridges, set 1m apart, are visible in its N sector and there are three structures (GA100-037001-, GA100-037002- and GA100-037003-) in the centre. There is an approximate gap of 20m between the inner and outer enclosure. The latter is defined by a bank (Wth 0.75-3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m), which is visible all round and planted with mature beech trees, and a fosse (Wth 1.6-2m; D 0.4m), which survives from NE through S to W and from NW to N. Traces of a possible outer bank, defined by very low wide stony bank, are visible from SE to SSE and from S to WSW. There is a stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 1.7m) at N. The inner enclosure appears to be the remains of a rath. The outer enclosure appears to be a later feature and may relate to the 19th-century landscaping of the demesne.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 26 August 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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