Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockmoyle East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmoyle East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.09055, -8.49359
- SMR number
- GA125-081----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the SE-facing slope of a hillock in scrubland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Apart from a colour change in vegetation, which indicates the location of this monument, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.