Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lecarrow North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08833, -8.43832
- SMR number
- GA125-101----
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 E-facing slope of a ridge. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) Apart from a short partially overgrown arc of the bank (Wth 2.8m; ext. H 1.4m; int. H 1.5m) at W, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.