Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gannaveen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gannaveen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26471, -8.20526
- SMR number
- GA100-091----
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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
On a hillock in gently rolling pastureland, a N flowing stream is visible to the W. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (47.5m N-S; c. 42m E-W) defined by a scarp from NNW to NE (max. H 1m) and from SE to S (max. H 0.5m); elsewhere no visible surface trace survives. Two more raths (GA100-090---- and GA100-092----) lie c. 250m to the NW and c. 300m to the WSW respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.