Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmanagh (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmanagh (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cruac=a=Newer Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.64792, -8.73127
- SMR number
- GA005-033----
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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 rise in level grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). It is described by Neary (1914, 117, no. 54) as 'an earthen fort … much mutilated and deeply scarped on S. E. Large stones mark where outward bank lay on S. Its diameter was about 140 ft. [ 42.65m]'. No visible surface trace survives. There was a CBG (GA005-033001-) in the interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.