Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcooly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcooly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19353, -8.44550
- SMR number
- GA106-057----
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
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank. A field wall cuts through it from NE to SW and a house has been built to its S. A possible souterrain (GA106-057001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.