Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowkeel (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26252, -8.60123
- SMR number
- GA097-067----
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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
Close to the W end of a prominent ridge. Poorly preserved circular rath (30m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from NW to E. Cody (1989, 186-7, no. 41) noted a shallow fosse (L 15m), running N-S across the ridge, c. 7m to the E of the rath. Its relationship with the rath could not be determined it but it appeared to be associated with it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.