Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Carrowmanagh (kilconnell By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmanagh (kilconnell By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.34056, -8.39798
- SMR number
- GA073-040----
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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 rise in otherwise marshy grassland. Circular rath (D 35m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from S through W to NE; elsewhere a scarp encloses the monument. The outer bank is visible from NW through N to NE.
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
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.