Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curheen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curheen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17963, -8.58955
- SMR number
- GA105-073----
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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 undulating rough pastureland. Poorly preserved oval rath (c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a bank and fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at NNW. There is a causewayed entrance gap at NNE. The fosse is visible from S through W to NNW. A field wall borders the monument from S to SW. See also GA105-073001-.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.