Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rinn (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinn (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghtloughlin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtloughlin
- Coordinates
- 53.20706, -8.82230
- SMR number
- GA103-168----
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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
On a gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Well-preserved roughly circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a bank that is overlain by a field boundary from NE through E to SE. Gaps at NNE and SSE appear to be modern. Field clearance-rubble obscures the bank at N. (McCaffrey 1952, 203, no. 86)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 March 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.