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Rahally
Galway, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0737
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0737 (737)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rahally
- Latitude
- 53.28233
- Longitude
- -8.51037
- Altitude
- 104 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 13.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.66 ha, 5.19 ha, 13.75 ha
- Footprint
- 14.24 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA086-211
- National record
- record GA 086
- Wikidata
- Q31068911
Sources
References
- Mullins, G. 2008. Three thousand years of human activity at Rahally, Co. Galway. In OSullivan, J. and Stanley, M. Roads, Rediscovery and Research: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2007. National Roads Authority, Dublin. 25 _ 35.