Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Sheeaun (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheeaun (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.04243, -8.84530
- SMR number
- GA128-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland. This poorly preserved oval rath (43m E-W; 31.5m NW-SE) is defined by a bank from NE to SW. It is overlain by field boundaries from NE to E and from S to SW. Another field boundary cuts through the rath at NE and SW and the bank has been levelled to its NW. However, its outline is clearly visible on the current OSi digitalglobe AP (April 2018).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.