Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caraun More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caraun More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27691, -8.53658
- SMR number
- GA097-056----
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 poorly drained grassland. Well-preserved almost circular rath (N-S 36m, E-W 35m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible only at NW and NE, and no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from N to NE or at S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.