Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahemaman Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.50874, -9.07450
- SMR number
- GA042-081----
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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
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by three denuded banks and two intervening fosses. A field boundary cuts the monument at S and W, to SW of which ploughing has almost completely levelled the middle and outer banks. A second wall overlies the outer bank from E to S. Within the interior, traces of earthworks, possibly associated, are visible. A ringfort (GA042-082----) lies c. 200m to E. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 304-5)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.