Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aggard Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aggard Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismoylan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismoylan
- Coordinates
- 53.20518, -8.74766
- SMR number
- GA104-006----
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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 ridge in pastureland. A well-preserved circular rath (diam. 19.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survives at SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 209-10, no. 31)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 October 2016
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.