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
- Lisheenoday
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenoday
- Coordinates
- 53.20406, -8.75520
- SMR number
- GA104-008----
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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 rolling pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (23.7m N-S) defined by a bank from S
through W to N. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to E of it. Within NW quadrant of the interior is a blocked-up souterrain (GA104-008001-). A barrow (GA104-109----) lies c. 50m to SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 208, no. 25)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.