Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathwilladoon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathwilladoon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99480, -8.87785
- SMR number
- GA128-070----
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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 hill summit in grassland. An almost circular rath (39.6m E-W; 38m NNW-SSE), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NNW to SSE, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NNW and SSE. A gap (Wth 2.9m) at SE may be original. Within the centre of the interior is a souterrain (GA128-070001-). A graveyard (GA128-069----) lies c. 40m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.