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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.01847, -8.86840
- SMR number
- GA128-049----
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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
In low-lying grassland. Subcircular rath (27.5m E-W; 26m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone which is overlain by field boundaries at N and E. A gap (Wth 4.5m) at SSE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.