Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cormick (Bracklagh ED ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cormick (Bracklagh ED )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissatrim
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissatrim
- Coordinates
- 53.17856, -8.38118
- SMR number
- GA106-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. c. 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. Field boundaries radiate from the monument at WSW and NNW. Either of two gaps at N and SSE could mark an original entrance.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.