Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Graveshill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graveshill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24300, -8.22552
- SMR number
- GA100-099----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in undulating pastureland. This almost circular rath (31m E-W; 30m N-S), in fair
condition, is defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. The bank is visible from SW to WNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is survives from S to SW and from NW to NNE. A gap at E may be original. Trees have been planted along the enclosing element from S through W to NE. A series of low grassed-over field banks radiate from the monument at NNE and SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.