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
- 53.13933, -8.73477
- SMR number
- GA114-090----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a hill slope in pastureland. Only the W section of this circular rath (diam. 25m) survives: it is defined by two well-preserved banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse from SW to NW. Elsewhere a low rise marks the line of the inner bank but no visible surface trace of the fosse or outer bank are evident. A souterrain (GA114-090001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.