Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheenclogh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenclogh
- Coordinates
- 53.25272, -8.22358
- SMR number
- GA100-152----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise in pastureland. Oval rath (38.5m E-W; 30m N-S), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible all round. The fosse is present from NE through S to NW, while the outer bank survives from ENE to SE and from WNW to NW. Several breaches in the banks appear to be modern. Quarrying has encroached upon the
monument at NW. A children’s burial ground (GA100-152001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.