Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullagh More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22019, -8.39276
- SMR number
- GA106-137----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank
and external fosse. The bank is visible from NW through N to NE and from S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.