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
- Raheennagower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23615, -8.94473
- SMR number
- GA095-041----
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
On a W-facing slope overlooking Galway Bay, now within a modern housing estate. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) named 'Raheennagower'. Holt (1911-12, 228) recorded that 'not even its plan is now traceable.' No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.