Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58056, -8.72547
- SMR number
- GA017-035----
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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 N-facing slope of a rise in low-lying grassland. Known locally as 'Flaherty's Fort' (Neary 1914, 116, no. 91), this subcircular rath (N-S 50.5m, E-W 49m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from ESE through S to W, apart from a short section of the fosse from ESE to SSE. A field bank overlies the outer bank from NW to NE. An enclosure (GA017-036----) lies c. 300m to ESE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.