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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07218, -8.78315
- SMR number
- GA123-084----
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 the crest of a hill in pastureland. This circular rath (diam. 31.2m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank that is overlain by a later tree-planted field boundary from NW through E to S. Apart from a slight rise at S and NW, the W half has been levelled.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 7 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.