Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgorm, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgorm
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47008, -8.74584
- SMR number
- GA044-027----
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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
Some 180m NW of a ringfort (GA044-028----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 30m). What survives is a bank and external fosse from N through E to SSE. A field wall cuts the monument at N and SSE, and no visible surface trace survives to W of it.
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 15 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.