Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbeg,somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbeg,somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25566, -8.22869
- SMR number
- GA100-151----
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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 undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (22m NW-SE; 18.5m NNE-SSW), in fair
condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank and fosse survive throughout, although a modern hut has been built up against the outer face of the this bank at ENE. The outer bank is visible from NNE to NE and from E to SSE. From SSE to NNW a line of limestone rubble indicates its line. It is overlain by a field boundary from NNW to NNE. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.5m) at SSW may be original. The rath is heavily overgrown with elder, ash and hawthorn.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
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.