Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherbroder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbroder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.02815, -8.83735
- SMR number
- GA128-030----
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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
In rough grazing land. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (52m E-W; 50m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone from ESE to S, and by a scarp from NNW through N to NNE. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element elsewhere. A gap (Wth 6m) at E appears to be modern. Field boundaries radiate from the monument at NW and N. Within the interior, two banks of earth and stone indicate internal divisions. Another rath (GA128-029----) lies c. 25m to the NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.