Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonnacusha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnacusha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheencreena
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheencreena
- Coordinates
- 53.15179, -8.31842
- SMR number
- GA117-021----
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 ridge in undulating grassland. This almost circular rath (30m N-S; 29m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a bank which is visible at N and E; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.