Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowmore (bracklagh Ed ),limehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (bracklagh Ed ),limehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.16901, -8.44520
- SMR number
- GA106-038----
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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 low-lying pastureland. This large subcircular rath (c. 75m N-S; c. 65m E-W), in fair
condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to W; from W to NW a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives around the S half of the monument and the outer bank is extant only from S to WNW. A road encircles it from NW through E to S. A gap (Wth 9m) at WNW may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.