Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappanaghtan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanaghtan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21118, -8.36181
- SMR number
- GA107-021----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland adjacent to a farm house. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (53.5m N-S; 47m E-W) defined by a bank best preserved in the N sector. The E and S sectors have been incorporated into later field boundaries. A gap (Wth 3m) at W may be original. A NNE-SSW field wall cuts through the monument at WNW and WSW and the line of the bank in the W sector is visible c. 5m to its W. The interior is now used as a vegetable garden.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.