Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08925, -8.45909
- SMR number
- GA125-031----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in hilly pastureland. Marked on the 1925 edition of the OS 6-inch as a subcircular enclosure (c. 37m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE-S). No visible surface trace survives. A possible souterrain (GA125-031001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.