Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaunbaun (drumkeary Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunbaun (drumkeary Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10777, -8.42372
- SMR number
- GA125-070----
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 natural rise in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (30m NE-SW; 24.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 1m).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.