Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raheen Kilkelly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen Kilkelly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11839, -8.81802
- SMR number
- GA113-185----
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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 gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (50m N-S; 46m E-W) defined by a bank except from NNW to ENE where a road cuts through the monument. A field wall crosses the interior from WSW to ENE and another field wall has been built against the external face of the bank at E. Field clearance material has been packed against the bank in several places with the result that it varies in width from 3.4m at NNW to 7m at S. A well has been sunk in the NW quadrant of the interior. A souterrain (GA113-185001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Milestoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.