Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Feebrack Or Nutgrove, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Feebrack Or Nutgrove
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14637, -8.33645
- SMR number
- GA117-032----
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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 hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as as a subcircular enclosure; a field boundary curved around it from SW to NE. On the 1947 revision of the map, further field boundaries surrounded it from NE to SE and from SE to SW. On inspection July 1983, apart from a band of vegetation (Wth 4m) which may have indicated its outline from E to S, no visible surface trace of the enclosure (c. 37m NE-SW; c. 31m NW-SE) survived. A curving field wall at W and N may also have mirrored its outline. The siting and cartographic evidence suggest that this was a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.