Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rakerin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rakerin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.07248, -8.79413
- SMR number
- GA123-081----
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 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 pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to local information this monument was bulldozed in the early 1960s when it survived as a ring of bushes and possibly a low bank. No visible surface trace survives but its outline is visible on aerial photography taken in 2011 (Google Earth 2019).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.