Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraun Lower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Lower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lismaleen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lismaleen
- Coordinates
- 53.22759, -8.95471
- SMR number
- GA095-040----
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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 undulating pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 24m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is overlain by a field wall. A causewayed gap at NNE may be original. There is a possible house site (GA095-040001-) within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2017
References
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.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.