Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.28888, -8.72596
- SMR number
- GA084-115----
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
In grassland. Described by Cody (1989, 267-9, no. 91) as a poorly preserved subcircular cashel (39m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. Within the E half of the interior were two almost parallel grass-covered stony banks running WSW-ENE and a low mound of earth and stone (3m by 3m). As a result of field clearance in the area, the monument has been leveled and no visible surface trace of it, or its associated features, survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.