Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughpark (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughpark (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08116, -8.45619
- SMR number
- GA125-115----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the S-facing slope of a hillock. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular enclosed mixed tree plantation (c. 65m; E-W; c. 44m N-S). However, according to local information there was formerly a ringfort and souterrain (GA125-115001-) located here. The field was bulldozed and the trees were cut down several years ago. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.