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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16040, -8.68455
- SMR number
- GA114-159----
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 gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a grassed-over bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m). A gap (Wth 3m) at ENE may be original. Traces of a rectangular enclosure (12m E-W; 9m N-S) defined by a low bank, abutting the monument at S, may be an associated annexe.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.