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Ringfort - rath

Gortnalug,Graveshill, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnalug, Graveshill, 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
Gortnalug,Graveshill
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.24006, -8.22943
SMR number
GA100-097----

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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

On a hillock in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (27m E-W; 23m N-S)
defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The scarp is visible from SW through N to SE and is heavily overgrown with ash trees and brambles. The fosse survives from SW through N to E. The outer bank is best preserved at SW and from N to NE; from SW to N it is defined by a low barely discernible rise. A field boundary cuts through the monument at SE and SW, to S of which no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the monument at NE.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 5 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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