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
- 53.26105, -8.48295
- SMR number
- GA098-059----
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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 undulating grassland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 28.5m) is defined by a bank from S through W to N; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere and a number of quarry pits have been dug into the line of the bank from N to NNE. There are traces of a berm immediately outside the bank from S to W and a shed and silage pit have been constructed at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 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.