Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rosseeshal, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosseeshal
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08248, -8.46062
- SMR number
- GA125-141----
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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 a S-facing slope in marshy grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 31.5m) defined by a bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.6m) and external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.2m). The bank is overgrown with bushes and breached by numerous gaps.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 207/1955).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.