Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
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
- 53.21068, -8.77572
- SMR number
- GA104-242----
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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 slight hill in reclaimed pastureland. According to McCaffrey (1952, 29, no. 19b; 1955, 225), this circular ring-barrow (diam. c. 23m), comprising a low flat-topped mound (diam. c. 14m; H 0.3m) encircled by a fosse and external bank, was overgrown with furze. Cultivation ridges ran across it and numerous pits were visible in its S and W sectors. It was further damaged by an 'old ditch' which cut across it at S. No visible surface trace survives. Another ring-barrow (GA104-242001-) lies c. 24m to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 August 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.