Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisheennagat, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisheennagat
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14964, -8.39218
- SMR number
- GA116-092----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating farmland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) clipped by a WNW-ESE running field boundary at N. No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.