Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caltragh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caltragh
- Coordinates
- 53.26571, -8.22132
- SMR number
- GA100-067----
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 hillock, close to a stream in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (62m NE-SW; 56m NW-SE) defined by bank (Wth 1.9m; base Wth 8.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m) from SSE to S and from NW to NNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap at S appears to be modern. There is a children's burial ground (GA100-067001-) in the E half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.