Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castleboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14621, -8.70119
- SMR number
- GA114-044----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is best preserved at SE. There are gaps in the bank at NE (Wth 7m) and SE (Wth 1.4m). Traces of a causeway exist outside the latter, which was probably the original entrance.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.