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Ringfort - rath

Garraunnameetagh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Garraunnameetagh, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garraunnameetagh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not ndicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.16918, -8.36514
SMR number
GA107-077----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

In low-lying marshy grassland. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 33m E-W) defined by a bank and fosse. Apart from a slight scarp curving from NE to E, no visible surface trace survives. A NW-SE running road cuts across it from NNW to E and a trackway, parallel to the road, cuts it from W to SE. Possibly a rath.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 7 March 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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