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
- 53.26188, -8.51117
- SMR number
- GA098-060----
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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 marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (52m NNW-SSE; 45m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp is visible from SE to W and from NW to NE. The fosse is only evident from S to W. A field boundary cuts through the monument at SE and SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.