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
- 53.19722, -8.40231
- SMR number
- GA106-083----
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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 rise in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 23.7m) is defined by a bank which is visible all round and best preserved at SW and from W to NW. A gap at NNE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.