Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ashfield Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashfield Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02414, -8.84866
- SMR number
- GA128-005----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 ridge in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (38.5m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse survives from SE through W to NE. The outer bank is visible from SW through W to NW. There is a souterrain (GA128-005001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Gate lodgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.