Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Acre Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acre Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17498, -8.53432
- SMR number
- GA105-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pastureland. A circular rath (diam. 40m), in good condition, defined by two banks
and an intervening fosse. Both banks are breached by numerous gaps, however, one at SSE may correspond to a 'causeway across the fosse' which was noted on 'S side' (Unpublished file, National Monuments Service). The interior is raised considerably above the surrounding field level.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.