Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilquain (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquain (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20287, -8.72509
- SMR number
- GA104-156----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 233, no. 38a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 39m) defined by a bank, which apart from a section at W, had been almost completely levelled. It is now defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) and is subcircular in plan (33m N-S; 31m E-W). Its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.