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
- 53.02020, -8.87972
- SMR number
- GA128-048----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a low hillock overlooking a lake to the NE. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (39.5m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone from SW through N to E. Stone-facing is evident on the inner face of the bank at N. Traces of the N side of a possible stone-lined entrance gap are visible at E. Immediately to the S of this a large pit has been dug into the monument and no trace of the bank survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.