Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roo Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roo Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Parkaliss Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Parkaliss Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.13819, -8.99663
- SMR number
- GA112-039----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hill in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (diam. 36m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. It has been disturbed at SE where field-clearance rubble is piled upon the enclosing elements. A field wall overlies the outer bank.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.