Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Rahasane, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahasane
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21009, -8.79505
- SMR number
- GA104-245----
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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 rise in pastureland. This poorly preserved oval-shaped burial ground (33m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) is defined by a drystone wall. The interior is overgrown with ash trees and nettles. Between 15 and 20 graves were noted. They were aligned ENE-WSW and consisted of small slab-lined graves with uninscribed head and footstones. They varied in length from 1m to 1.8m and the headstones were between 0.2m and 0.4m high. They were concentrated in the S and W sectors of the burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 2 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.