Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fiddaun (kiltartan By.),isertkelly North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fiddaun (kiltartan By.),isertkelly North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16571, -8.73294
- SMR number
- GA114-071----
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
In gently undulating pastureland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 23m) defined by a bank which survives from NNE through S to SW. The townland boundary wall cuts across the monument at NNE and SW and no visible surface trace of the bank survives to the NW of it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.