Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derry (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derry (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18422, -8.13633
- SMR number
- GA108-063----
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
In undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as an oval enclosure (c. 39m ESE-WNW; c. 32m NE-SW). No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a rath. Another possible rath (GA108-057----) lies c. 40m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.