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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rahaneena, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rahaneena, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rahaneena
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.21149, -8.90097
SMR number
GA103-166----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the edge of a high bluff on the N bank of the estuary of the Kilcolgan River. A circular area (diam. 19m) is defined by a deep steep-sided fosse with an external earthen bank. Though Redington (1912, 176) mentioned ‘a circular bank … within it’, McCaffrey (1952, 202, no. 20) noted the absence of any internal bank. The interior is uneven. A laneway cuts across the monument from SE to NW; to its SW only slight traces of the fosse survive on the cliff edge.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 31 July 2019

References

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Redington, M. 1911-12 Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin; ii Stradbally parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 7, 171-183.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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