Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cregboy (Beagh ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregboy (Beagh ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00323, -8.84356
- SMR number
- GA128-040----
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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 the summit of a low hill that overlooks a turlough to the W. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (31m NE-SW; 28.9m NW-SE) defined by three grassed-over banks of earth and stone and a fosse. The inner bank survives all round. The fosse and middle bank are visible from SE through W to NE. The third bank is evident further downslope; it extends from the middle bank at SW and is visible through W to N. A causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at SSE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.