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Ringfort - rath

Galey, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Galey, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Galey
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.57312, -8.08345
SMR number
RO042-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 low-lying level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 53m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) N-SSE and by a low scarp (at W: H 0.5m) SSW-NNW. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and it is bisected by a N-S railway line. A hearth (RO042-171----) (diam. c. 0.6m) was found in archaeological testing (02E0616) c. 100m to the NW (Morahan 2004a). Archaeological testing (12E0236) by Martin Byrne immediately to the W failed to produce any related archaeological material. See Excavations.ie (2012: 510).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 29 September, 2015
Amended: 4 February2020

References

Morahan, L. 2004a Galey: charcoal spread. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 454-5, No. 1608. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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