Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shangarry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shangarry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18705, -8.42141
- SMR number
- GA106-147----
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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 otherwise level grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to local information, the monument was defined by a ‘ring of earth and stone’. It was levelled in the 1940s; no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.