Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisheenabasty
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheenabasty
- Coordinates
- 53.25252, -8.52039
- SMR number
- GA098-065----
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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 level grassland. Known locally as ‘Lisin na bPaistidh’ (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 499), this very poorly preserved subcircular rath (38m E-W; 36.2m N-S) is defined by a bank which is visible only from E to ESE. Elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank overlies the monument from N to E. There is a children’s burial ground (GA098-065001-) and a souterrain (GA098-065002-) within the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.