Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Craughwell (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craughwell (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21141, -8.22006
- SMR number
- GA108-050----
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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
In grassland encompassing the summit of a hillock, known locally as 'Sheeaun Hill'. Poorly
preserved subcircular rath (47m N-S; 45m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is extant from SE to SSW; from N to SE a scarp forms the enclosing element and no visible surface trace survives from SSW to N. The fosse and outer bank only survive from S to WSW. A trackway cuts through the line of the fosse and outer bank from NE to SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.