Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Raherneen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raherneen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25594, -8.64905
- SMR number
- GA097-141001-
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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 grassland. Marked the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure and on the 1933 edition as a rectangular enclosure. It consists of an oval cashel (45m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A gap (Wth 9m) at NE may be original. No visible surface trace survives of the entrance at S or the fosse and outer bank noted by McCaffrey (1952, 170, no. 13). There is a children’s burial ground (GA097-141----) in the W half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.