Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derryvunlam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryvunlam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08408, -8.38330
- SMR number
- GA125-053----
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 the W edge of a ridge in wet pastureland. Marked on the 1928 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m); partially levelled by the time of the 3rd edition (1920).
No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a rath.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.