Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carhoon (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carhoon (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15912, -8.34334
- SMR number
- GA117-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (29.8m N-S; 24.3m E-W) defined by a scarp.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.