Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockaunbrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunbrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64189, -8.67371
- SMR number
- GA005-087----
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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
Some 130m SE of a ringfort (GA005-086----). Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 37m, E-W 34m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall best preserved from NW to N, and surviving as a low foundation line from N through E to S. A scarp forms the enclosing element from S to NW. Abutting the wall at S is a small rectangular stone structure, probably modern. A ringfort (GA005-085----) lies c. 180m to NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.