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Ringfort - unclassified

Drumminacloghaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Drumminacloghaun, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumminacloghaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.06509, -8.84430
SMR number
GA122-076----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a low sand and gravel ridge. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 37m NE-SW; c. 34m NW-SE). On inspection in May 1986 no visible surface trace survived. According to the landowner, the area was quarried out c. 1960 and as a result the ground level had been lowered by several metres. A house has since been built on the site. Possibly a ringfort.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 4 March 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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