Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Keamsellagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keamsellagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17399, -8.85265
- SMR number
- GA103-123----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) with a field boundary curving around the W half of the monument. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 195, no. 73) as an ‘Earthen fort’ within which there was a souterrain (GA103-123001-). No visible surface trace survives due to land reclamation. The field boundary has also been cleared away.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Milestoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.