Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissatunny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissatunny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11876, -8.79623
- SMR number
- GA114-123----
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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 the summit of a hillock. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 26.6m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A NE-SW running field wall cuts across the monument at WNW and SSE. The cartographic evidence suggest that this was a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.