Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortymadden, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortymadden
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.19958, -8.41248
- SMR number
- GA106-081----
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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 pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 25m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank are visible from SW to N and for a short distance at SE. Two later parallel earthen banks (L 11.5m), some 2.5m apart, extend from the monument at SW and then curve to the NW and SE respectively where they follow the edge of a natural terrace. These features may be of 19th-century origin. A souterrain (GA106-081001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.