Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rafarn (Kilmeen ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rafarn (Kilmeen ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18216, -8.47852
- SMR number
- GA106-143----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank
of earth and stone. Traces of a possible souterrain (GA106-143----) are evident in the N sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.