Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilquain (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquain (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17817, -8.22775
- SMR number
- GA108-144----
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 marshy grassland overlooking bogland to the SW. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) and on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as an oval enclosure (c. 31m NNE-SSW; c. 21m E-W). A short line of hachures (L 16m) running NE-SW is shown immediately to the NW. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.