Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Rathcosgry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcosgry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19513, -8.74846
- SMR number
- GA104-247----
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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 the crest of an esker ridge in pastureland. Well-preserved circular house site (diam. 8.5m) defined by a grassed-over bank which is revetted internally with large boulders. At ESE an entrance passageway (L 5.3m; Wth 2.7m) is defined by two lines of set boulders. Surrounding the monument from N through E to S is a wide irregular fosse, possibly the result of quarrying. (McCaffrey 1952, 247, no. 112)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.