Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Traskernagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Traskernagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18972, -8.51147
- SMR number
- GA106-161----
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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
On a SE-facing slope in pastureland. Oval rath (c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a fairly uniform bank of earth and stone (base Wth 2.7m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m). A hollow is visible outside the bank at SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 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.