Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rahasane, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahasane
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21090, -8.78116
- SMR number
- GA104-241----
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 a NE-facing slope. Described by McCaffrey (1952, 246, no. 56a) as a very denuded circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. 36.6m). It is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m; H c. 0.3-0.5m), roughly D-shaped in plan (c. 20m NE-SW) with straight SW side (L c. 30m).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.