Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Rahasane,rinn (killeely Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahasane,rinn (killeely Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghincha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghincha
- Coordinates
- 53.21877, -8.79970
- SMR number
- GA104-244----
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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
In a turlough c. 15m to the S of a channel of the Dunkellin River. This crannog (diam. 30m; H 3m) is defined by a circular tree-covered cairn of stones, which is delimited by a low drystone wall of large blocks. Near its summit, a roughly rectangular enclosure (L 3m; Wth 1.5m) constructed of drystone walling, one course high, may be a modern feature possibly associated with 'duck-hunters' who used the site for concealment (McCaffrey 1952, 43, no. 1). (Redington 1916, 57-8)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2020
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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. 1916a Notes on the Ordnance Survey Letters relating to the barony of Dunkellin: v. - Killeeneen parish. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 45-61.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.