Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carra (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carra (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.26392, -8.49785
- SMR number
- GA098-057----
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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 ridge in grassland, c. 50m to the W of a stream. Subcircular rath (34m NNW-SSE; 32m WSW-ENE), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from NW through N to NE, and from SW to W. A curving trackway may indicate its line from NE to E. A N-S running field fence cuts the monument at W. The remains of a later stone hut, which was built into the external face of the bank, are visible at SE. A rectangular depression in the SW quadrant of the interior may indicate the line of a possible collapsed souterrain (GA098-057001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.