Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grallagh (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16881, -8.50008
- SMR number
- GA106-084----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. Oval rath (c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field boundary cut through the monument at W and E, and another clips it at S. The inner bank is visible from NE through S to NNW but is badly eroded from SE to SSW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from NE to SE and slight traces are evident from SSW to NNW. Either of two gaps at E and NW could be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.