Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmacshane (turbett), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacshane (turbett)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Killeen Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.22243, -8.03380
- SMR number
- GA101-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) and on the 1945-6 revision as a small mound (c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W). Apart from a low roughly circular rise (diam. 18m), no visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA101-020001-) lies within the W half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.