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Ringfort - rath

Cregg (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cregg, 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
Cregg (Leitrim By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.09404, -8.43293
SMR number
GA125-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 34m N-S), which was possibly a rath. A roughly NNW-SSE running field boundary clipped it at E. On inspection in May 1983 no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline is clearly visible on OSi Ortho_ITM aerial photographs dated 2005-2012 and Digital Globe aerial imagery dated 2011-2013. More recent aerial imagery dated 2013-2018 (see http://map.geohive.ie/ last accessed 27 January 2021) suggests that the monument has been quarried away as a result of the expansion of the gravel works shown c. 60m to its NW on the 2005-2012 imagery.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 27 January 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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