Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Galey, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.