Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Earlspark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Earlspark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18161, -8.54540
- SMR number
- GA105-081----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low esker ridge in undulating pastureland. This subcircular rath (20m N-S; 18.7m E-W) is defined by a bank (base Wth 4.15m; Wth across top 1.2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.98m) best preserved from S through W to N. There is a possible entrance gap at SSW. The interior is slightly raised. A section of the relict roadway
from Loughrea to Dalystown, running NW-SE, skirts around the S limits of the site (Beglane 2014, 311). Another rath (GA105-080----) lies c. 325m to the NE and there is a hillfort (GA105-205----) c. 270m to the NNW and a standing stone (GA105-237----) c. 133m to the SSE. (ASGAP 193:37a)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 October 2020
References
Beglane, F. 2014 Theatre of power: the Anglo-Norman park at Earlspark, Co Galway, Ireland. Medieval Archaeology 58, 307-17.
ASGAP - Archaeological Survey Galway Aerial Photograph.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.