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
- 53.10255, -8.48544
- SMR number
- GA125-005----
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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. Marked on the 3rd ed. of the OS 6-inch map (1920) as a roughly circular bivallate enclosure (diam. c. 55m max.). The outer enclosing element was clipped by a NW-SE running field at E and an ENE-WSW running field wall at S. When inspected in May 1983, apart from a slight depression (diam. 23m) in the ground surface, no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. The field wall at S may overlie the line of the outer enclosing element.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.