Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cahernamona, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernamona
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23261, -8.59980
- SMR number
- GA097-047----
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 level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (29m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a degraded bank overlain by a field wall at W. There is a souterrain (GA097-047001-) in the W half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.