Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grannagh (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grannagh (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14789, -8.74058
- SMR number
- GA114-084----
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
On a S-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 40.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (max. Wth 8.8m; Wth at top 1.3m; int. H 1.4m) is high and slopes steeply to the fosse. A large gap has been cut through it at NE. The fosse (Wth 4.3m) is wide and deep but has been infilled with rubbish and soil at NE. The outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m) only survives at S. A farmyard has encroached upon the monument at W resulting in the infilling of the fosse and the destruction of the inner bank.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1981).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.