Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraun Upper, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Upper
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Coordinates
- 53.23100, -8.94726
- SMR number
- GA095-047----
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 undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (33.7m N-S; 31m E-W), in fair condition, defined by
two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from SE through W to NW. From NE to SE piles of rubble and timber have been dumped along and on top of it. The fosse and outer bank survive from S through W to N. A possible souterrain (GA095-047001-) is associated. (Holt 1912, 229; McCaffrey 1952, 131-2, no. 21)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.