Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leamcon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamcon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16331, -8.52709
- SMR number
- GA115-046----
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 an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 20m) defined by a bank and external fosse. No visible surface trace of the bank survives at E and the fosse is infilled in places and overgrown with briars.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.