Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (kilconickny Ed ), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (kilconickny Ed )
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21356, -8.64212
- SMR number
- GA105-057----
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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 open pastureland. A poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a stone-faced bank of earth and stone which survives intermittently and is surrounded by a berm-like feature from NE through E to SW. McCaffrey (1952, 256, no. 6) noted an ‘almost completely filled up’ fosse; no visible surface trace of it survives. A possible souterrain (GA105-057001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 January 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.