Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gilroe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gilroe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99071, -8.81546
- SMR number
- GA133-008----
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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 ridge c. 160m to the N of Loughaundoongorey. This very poorly preserved and densely overgrown subcircular rath (27m E-W; 22m N-S) is defined by a bank from NE to E and by a scarp from E to S. A curving band of vegetation at W and a field bank at N may indicate the former line of the enclosing element.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.