Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Corker, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corker
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11526, -8.80326
- SMR number
- GA114-057001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On an E-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 33m N-S), this possible rath is now defined by scarp (max. H 1.5m) and is rectangular in plan (27m x 22m) as a result of the squaring off of the NW and NE sectors by a tractor trackway. A field wall clipping ahe SW quadrant may overlie the line of the original bank. Another tractor trackway runs through the interior of the monument to the E of this field boundary. A possible house site (GA114-057006-) lies to the NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.