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
- 53.26207, -8.48759
- SMR number
- GA098-058----
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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 gently undulating grassland. An almost circular rath (39.8m E-W; 38.3m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank except at S and from NW to N where a scarp forms the enclosing element. Traces of inner stone-facing survive intermittently. The monument is cut by a field wall at NNW and NNE. Within the interior a series of earthen banks may be associated internal divisions.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.