Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - ring-cairn
Cnoc Raithní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cnoc Raithní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35019, -9.25610
- SMR number
- GA067-029----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the summit of Knockranny, a locally prominent steep-sided hill. This small low circular ring-cairn (overall diam. c. 11m) is defined by a grassy bank externally and a ragged stony scarp internally. There is a narrow gap (Wth 0.5m) at NNW. The interior is slightly dished in profile but it is partially obscured by a modern drystone-built cairn (H 1m; diam. 2.3m) which occupies the centre of the monument. A possible cist (GA057-029001-) is visible in the SSE sector (pers. comm. P. Gosling 2013).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut site1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.