Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raheen Oughter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen Oughter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18881, -8.61630
- SMR number
- GA105-176----
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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 undulating pastureland. Known locally as the liss, this circular rath (diam. 40m) is defined by a very poorly preserved bank (Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 4.1m; int. H ).2m; ext. H 0.7m) that is overgrown with bushes and surrounded by field walls except from S to SE. A children’s burial ground (GA105-176001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.