Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Na Grigíneacha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Grigíneacha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55368, -9.64037
- SMR number
- GA025-006----
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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 summit of a knoll to N of the Joyce River in Gleann an Mháma. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 23.7m; E-W 19.9m) defined by traces of a low drystone wall now overlain by a modern field wall.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate date1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.