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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19053, -8.23897
- SMR number
- GA107-098----
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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
On a hillock in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 26m E-W; c. 23m N-S). It occupied the S end of a roughly rectangular small field and the E and W field walls clipped it from NE to SE and NW to SW respectively. No visible surface trace survives. Quarrying had occurred on the E face of the hillock, to the NE of the site.
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.