Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26040, -8.21893
- SMR number
- GA100-069----
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 ridge in level pastureland. Poorly preserved oval rath (33m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a bank from NW to NE and from SSE to SSW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 4.5m) at S may be original. There is a small quarry immediately outside the rath at SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.