An Chrois
An Chrois is a ringforts and site on Bóthar an Choiléir in Galway, County Galway, 3.4 km north-west of Eyre Square. Famine cottages and Menlo Castle Entrance Arch are within 144 m. An ancient Bronze Age standing stone. It was Christianised in 1675 when Johannes Healy carved "I. Healy" and a cross on the former pagan stone
- Street
- Bóthar an Choiléir
- From Eyre Square
- 3.4 km north-west
The map does not yet record a phone number, a website or opening hours for An Chrois. Anyone can add them on OpenStreetMap; this page picks the change up at the next refresh.
Plan of the surrounding 300 m
Getting to An Chrois
- Directions from where you are
- Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.
While you are there
Bóthar an Choiléir itself has 2 named places on the map.
Other sites within 3 km: Famine cottages (23 m), Menlo Castle Entrance Arch (144 m), Lochán Mhionlaigh (430 m), Menlo Castle fire memorial (526 m) and Menlo Castle (549 m).
What a ringfort is
The countryside around Tuam is dotted with ringforts, and there is nothing unusual in that: Ireland has more than 40,000 of them on record and probably had 50,000 once, about one in every two square kilometres, though ploughing and building have flattened many. They are small round enclosures, some of stone, most of banked earth with a ditch outside and once a wooden palisade on top, built from the Bronze Age through to about the year 1000 as the fenced yards of farmsteads. One or more houses stood inside.
The Irish names tell you what kind you are looking at. A ráth is the earthen bank, a lios the open space it encloses, so a place beginning Lis- or Rath- was an earthen fort; cathair, anglicised caher, is a stone-walled one; dún is a stronghold of some standing and need not be round at all. Many of the sites below survived because they were left alone as fairy forts, and many more were found on the first Ordnance Survey maps, from the air, or in the digging that comes before a new road.
Written from Wikipedia, "Ringfort" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.
Within a short walk
- Famine cottages23 mRuins
- 144 m
Also on Bóthar an Choiléir
- Famine cottagesRuins
Other ringforts and sites around Galway
- 5.4 km
- Road of the Old Hag6.4 kmRoad of the Old Hag
- 8.6 km
- 10.2 km
- 10.5 km
- 10.9 km
- 11.4 km
- 12.6 km
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Source record: OpenStreetMap node/1121956264, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.