Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cartron (carrowrevagh Ed ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (carrowrevagh Ed )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.54046, -8.76509
- SMR number
- GA030-034----
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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 prominent rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved and partially overgrown subcircular rath (N-S 39m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall cuts across the monument at SSW and NNW, and no visible surface trace survives to W of it. A scarp forms the inner enclosing element from N to ENE but from this point to SSW it continues as a wide bank. There is a gap (Wth 4m) at S. The fosse and outer bank survive only from SSE to SSW. The interior rises towards the centre where there are traces of a low scarp and a large circular hollow (D 6m). Directly inside the inner bank from E to S is a large fosse-like linear depression up to 0.6m in depth. This depression or the central hollow may mark the site of a 'cave' (possible souterrain; GA030-034001-) which, according to local tradition, lies within 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.