Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roxborough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16540, -8.70606
- SMR number
- GA114-156----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 37m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from WNW through N to NE. A field wall cuts through it at WNW and NE and to the S of it the wall it has been levelled. However, its outline is visible as a stony patch with a slight dip indicating the line of the fosse. Another rath (GA114-157----) lies c. 120m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.