Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cahercrin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercrin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26415, -8.76649
- SMR number
- GA096-029----
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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 gentle NE-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 32m) defined by a bank. Several gaps in the enclosing element appear to be modern. There is a children's burial ground (GA096-029001-) in the interior and a house site (GA096-031----) lies c. 70m to SE. (Redington 1916a, 56; O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 461; McCaffrey 1952, 151, no. 23)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2017
References
Redington, M. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.