Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowbaun (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22917, -8.63230
- SMR number
- GA097-064----
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
Some 150m to the SW of a cashel (GA097-063----). Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34m) defined by a scarp. A field wall cuts through the monument at NE and SE and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the E of it. Some exposed limestone flagstones
within the interior may be the roof lintels of a possible souterrain (GA097-064001-) or else natural bedrock.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.