Three thousand years of human activity at Rahally, Co. Galway

Rahally townland lies immediately south of a byroad near the village of New Inn (An Cnoc Breac) in east County Galway, in the civil parish of Grange and the barony of Kilconnell. The site at Rahally was on a hillside with a northern aspect, in pastureland c. 1.75 km south-east of the Raford River (Illus. 1). The hill forms part of a glacial ridge, with lower wet pasture and bog to the south…