Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Allykeolaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Allykeolaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10541, -8.48480
- SMR number
- GA125-004----
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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 an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 37m)
defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from NE to SSW. A possible entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) is evident at E. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and NE; another runs outside the inner bank at W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.