Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Toberroe (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberroe (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55823, -9.00730
- SMR number
- GA028-044----
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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
Near W limits of a field system (GA028-021----). Subcircular cashel (E-W 23.2m, N-S 21.5m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall best preserved at NW. A field wall overlies the cashel wall from NW through N to NE. Gap at SE could be original. A drystone wall running SW from the monument, at SE, may be associated. Enclosures (Nos. GA028-043001-, GA028-043002-) lie 160m to NE and 120m to SE respectively.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.