Rinmore or Cromwells Fort

On seashore 1.5km ESE of Galway town (GA094-100----). A quadrangular earthen artillery fort (L/Wth 30m) with salient angle-bastions at each corner which is surrounded by an irregular fosse. The entrance, via a causeway, was midway along E side. The NE and SE bastions survive intact but NW is damaged by a 19th-C butt, and whole SW part of the fort has been eroded by the sea. Built in 1643, along with a sister fort near Nimmo's Pier (GA094-099002-), to command the sea approaches to the harbour. (Walsh 1988; Kerrigan 1980, 136; O'Dowd 1985, 28-9, 38-9) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.