Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curheen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curheen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knocknasop Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknasop Fort (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.18493, -8.59841
- SMR number
- GA105-071----
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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. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 50m) defined by a low bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.