Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rakerin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rakerin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.06895, -8.79175
- SMR number
- GA123-083----
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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 an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved and grassed-over circular cashel (diam. 24m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from NE to E. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at NW may be original. The monument is heavily overgrown with brambles and bushes.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.