Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraun Lower,garraun Upper, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Lower,garraun Upper
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22892, -8.94794
- SMR number
- GA095-038----
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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 crest of a ridge in undulating grassland. When visited by the Survey in 1982, this monument consisted of the W half of a circular rath (diam. 42.5m), which was cut by a road from NNW to SSE. It was defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. In 1990 the monument was bulldozed during land-clearance operations and no visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is clearly visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. There is a souterrain (GA095-038001-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. (Holt 1912, 228; Westropp 1919, 172; McCaffrey 1952, 130, no. 22)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Holt, E.W.L. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: iii - Ballynacourty parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 205-51.
Westropp, T.J. 1919a Notes on several forts in Dunkellin and other parts of southern Co. Galway. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 167-86.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.