Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raherneen,cahernalee, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raherneen,cahernalee
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26588, -8.65227
- SMR number
- GA097-140----
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
Encompassing a ridge in otherwise level marshy grassland, c. 120m to the S of the Dooyertha River. This subcircular rath (38m N-S; 36m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a bank, which is overlain by a field wall at E. A gap (Wth c. 3m) at SE appears to be original. (McCaffrey 1952, 170, no. 8)
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1987).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.