Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmunniagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmunniagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58527, -8.77116
- SMR number
- GA017-045----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a hill in rolling grassland. Known locally as 'Great Fort' (Neary 1914, 122, no. 129), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 38 m) is defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The scarp survives only at N and from E through S to SSW; elsewhere it has been quarried out. A field bank overlies the outer bank throughout. A number of small hollows occupy the interior. Adjoining the site at E is a rectangular enclosure (N-S 21m, E-W 17m) defined by an earthern bank; possibly a later feature.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.