Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardnagno, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnagno
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10604, -8.92218
- SMR number
- GA122-001----
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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
In level farmland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse survives from WNW to N, and from SSE to S. The outer bank is only evident from W to N. A gap (Wth 2m) at SSE may be original. There is a souterrain (GA122-001001-) in the NNW sector of the fosse. As this is the only known archaeological monument in the townland, it may well be the site referred to by Fahey (1901, 230) as the ‘chief residence’ of the O'Drinan's, an important medieval legal family in south Galway.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 6 September 2019
References
Fahey, J. 1901a Some antiquities in the neighbourhood of Oranmore and Kilcolgan, County Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 228-35.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.