Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killachunna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killachunna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18324, -8.23821
- SMR number
- GA107-095----
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. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE). On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) it is indicated by a line of hachures curving from S to NW. The curing field boundary shown on the 1945 revision of the 6-inch map probably mirrored its outline. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 July 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.