Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carra (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carra (Loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26419, -8.49253
- SMR number
- GA098-063----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hummock in grassland. This poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (40.8m N-S; 38.7m E-W), defined by a scarp (H 0.55-0.9m), is visible midway around the hummock. The interior rises up towards the centre and traces of E-W running cultivation ridges are evident. The siting would be suitable for a rath but it may be a later enclosure.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.