Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilshanvy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilshanvy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56595, -8.99787
- SMR number
- GA028-037----
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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 a rise in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 42.5m, E-W 38.8m) defined by a drystone wall from N through E to SW; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from N to NE. Gap at ESE could be original. Within the interior are the remains of two grassed-over stone structures: (a) circular (D 2.7m), and (b) subrectangular (N-S; L 3.4m, Wth 2m) in plan. Probably the remains of houses.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.