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Ringfort - rath

Caherhenryhoe, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Caherhenryhoe, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Caherhenryhoe
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23127, -8.62017
SMR number
GA097-040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 55m E-W; c. 35m N-S) with a ‘Cave’ (GA097-040----) in the W half of the interior. An ENE-WSW running field boundary clipped it at S. No visible surface trace survives. Two other raths lay c. 195m to the W and c. 300m to the NW respectively.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 19 July 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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