Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnakilla (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnakilla (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08280, -8.43044
- SMR number
- GA125-062----
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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, c. 50m to the SW of Danesfort House. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 33m) is defined by an inner scarp, an intervening berm, an outer bank/scarp and an outer fosse. The inner scarp survives all round while the berm is only clearly
evident at the SE. Slight traces of a possible outer bank are visible at SE, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Traces of the outer fosse only survive at NNW. Beech trees are growing along the outer scarp face from S through W to N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.