Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claremadden, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claremadden
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21139, -8.27506
- SMR number
- GA107-029----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a bank
and external fosse from NNW through N to SSE; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A later tree-lined field bank, roughly E-W running, incorporates the N sector of the site and from NNW to NNE, where trees are growing on the enclosing bank, its external face has been steepened. Another later field bank, running N-S, lies just inside the line of the original bank at W. A roadway immediately to the S of the monument probably clipped the line of the fosse. Traces of a possible souterrain (GA107-029001-) lie in the SW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.