Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Abbeyland Great, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland Great
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisphubble
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisphubble
- Coordinates
- 53.21305, -8.10797
- SMR number
- GA108-006----
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 S-facing slope in grassland overlooking marshy land. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (48m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives at N due to quarrying. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 7.5m) at E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.