Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roxborough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16395, -8.70626
- SMR number
- GA114-157----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 48.8) defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The very substantial inner bank is visible all round. The fosse is wide, deep and flat bottomed. The outer bank is preserved from SSE through W to NE. Its E section has been defaced where a N-S running field wall and roadway clip it. A post and wire fences runs E-W just to its N and another runs N-S to its W. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2m) at SE. Numerous depressions and low grass-covered banks are visible in the interior. A possible souterrain (GA114-157001-) is associated (SMR file). Another rath (GA114-156----) lies c. 120m to the NNE.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1983).
The following image has been uploaded: GA114-157----_01.jpg View of inner bank, fosse and outer bank at SSE
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.