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Ringfort - rath

Carn, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carn, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carn
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.20312, -8.53091
SMR number
GA105-210----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:60) revealed a poorly preserved enclosure with a depression in the interior that possibly marked the site of souterrain. On inspection this proved to be a rath (diam. 44.7m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A low bank (Wth 1.5m) cut across the interior from E to W. The depression noted on the aerial photograph proved to be a quarried-out area in the NE quadrant. Low banks of earth and stone (Wth c. 2m) radiating from the monument at SW and NW are possibly an associated field system (GA105-210001-).

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 2 June 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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