Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Parkaloughan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parkaloughan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19312, -8.78586
- SMR number
- GA104-217----
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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 rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A roughly N-S running field boundary cut across it from NW to SW. No visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA104-217----) occupies the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.