Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbride, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rullagh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rullagh Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.18713, -8.40086
- SMR number
- GA106-090----
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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 circular rath (diam. 30m), in fair condition, is defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The inner bank is visible from NE to E and from S to SW. The inner fosse survives all round. The middle bank is extant from NW through E to SW, while the middle fosse is visible from SW to N. The outer bank only survives sporadically from SW to N. There is an entrance gap (Wth 4.6m) at SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Industrial siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.