Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lydacan (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lydacan (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11944, -8.83183
- SMR number
- GA113-164----
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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
In level pastureland. This very well-preserved, but tree-covered, subcircular rath (int. dims. 29m E-W; 27.6m N-S) is defined by a massive flat-topped bank (max. Wth 7.5-9.5m; int. H 1.7-2.1m; ext. H 3-3.7m) and external fosse (Wth 4.5-7.4m; D 1.6-1.8m). There is a stone-lined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at E. A souterrain (GA113-164001-), possible house site (GA113-164002-) and 19th-C burial vault are visible in the SW quadrant of the interior. A children's burial ground (GA113-163----) lies c. 35m to the N and some 80m to the SW there is a bullaun stone (GA113-166001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.