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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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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