Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonbeg (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbeg (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08614, -8.77428
- SMR number
- GA123-037----
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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
On a hill in grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 29m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A gap (Wth 1.2m) at SW may be original. A souterrain (GA123-037001-) is incorporated into the enclosing element at SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 November 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.