Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fiddaun (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fiddaun (Kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02142, -8.86830
- SMR number
- GA128-047----
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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 gentle rise in grassland. This very poorly preserved subcircular rath (26.5m E-W; 24.5m N-S) is defined by an almost completely levelled bank (max. H 0.2m). The monument has been bulldozed. According to local information, prior to levelling, the bank was almost 1m high and was composed of earth and stone; there was an entrance feature at W. A souterrain (GA128-047001-) lies in the centre of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.