Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dalystown Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalystown Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15157, -8.50133
- SMR number
- GA116-042----
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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
In undulating pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) within a mixed tree plantation named 'Long Nursery'. The monument has been leveled and apart from a slight hollow in the field, which indicates it location, no visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is visible on the OSi Digitalglobe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.