Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbaun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbaun (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16190, -8.55541
- SMR number
- GA115-044----
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 NE-facing slope in undulating pastureland overlooking Lough Rea to the N. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a partially levelled enclosure (diam c. 30m) and indicated by a line of hachures curving from SE through W to NW. On inspection in April 1992, apart from a very faint scarp along the SW sector, no visible surface trace survived due to field clearance and land reclamation. However, its outline is visible on the OSi Orhto aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.