Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnalug,graveshill, County Galway, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.