Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Carn Mór Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.30625, -8.88674
- SMR number
- GA083-019----
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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 low-lying pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 113, no. 13) as an 'Earthen fort', which was very flattened and denuded, this poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 43m) is defined by a low bank of grassed-over stones. An irregular scarp runs across the monument from N to S; the area to the E of it is 1m lower than that to the W. A low circular mound of earth and stone (diam. 4.5m) is visible in the NE quadrant. A grassed-over stony bank, possibly associated, extends from the enclosing element at SW and runs NW for c. 55m. A trackway cuts across the monument from NE to SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.