Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rahaneena, County Galway, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.