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
- 53.25799, -8.49086
- SMR number
- GA098-061----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (36m N-S; 30.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank from S through W to NW and elsewhere by a scarp. A field boundary cuts across the monument from NW to NE. A roughly rectangular hollow in the NW quadrant may mark the site of a possible souterrain (GA098-061001-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.