Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolagh (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolagh (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18524, -8.36647
- SMR number
- GA107-042----
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 hummock in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 35m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from NW to NNE and from SSE to SW. A degraded scarp forms the enclosing element from NNE through E to S and no visible surface trace survives from SW to NW where it is overlain by a later field bank. The fosse survives from NW to NNE and from SE to SW. It is obscured by overgrowth from SSE to NW. The outer bank only survives NW to NNE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.