Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowrevagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowrevagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25131, -8.65106
- SMR number
- GA097-074----
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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
On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 33m) defined by a bank which survives from W to NNW and from N to ENE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere as a house and associated buildings encroach upon it. McCaffrey (1952, 167, no. 16) noted that the enclosing element was stone-faced and that there was a souterrain (GA097-074001-) in the interior. A rectangular structure (L 8.8m; Wth 7.7m), aligned N-S, defined by a bank of earth and stone abuts the bank at NE; traces of a shallow fosse are evident along its N and E sides externally and along the W wall internally. Its relationship with the rath is unclear; it may be an old house site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.