Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaun (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaun (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21721, -8.34238
- SMR number
- GA107-124----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (41m NW-SE; 37.5m NE-SW) defined by a bank
and external fosse. A field bank cuts through the enclosing elements from NE to SE, to E of which a vegetation band indicates the limits of the monument.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.