Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carheen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carheen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18808, -8.70982
- SMR number
- GA104-086----
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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
In rolling pastureland. Marked on the 1st edition (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure; partially levelled by the time of the 3rd edition (1933). This poorly preserved rath (diam. 40m) is defined by a low bank from N through E to S. A field wall cuts through it from NW to SW and no visible surface trace of it survives to the W of the wall. (McCaffrey 1952, 221, no. 89)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.