Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lomaunaghbaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lomaunaghbaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55171, -8.71529
- SMR number
- GA030-097----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On S-facing slope of a ridge in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (E-W 32m, N-S 23.7m) defined by a low grassed-over dry stone wall. No visible surface trace of the enclosing wall survives from W to N due to quarrying and the construction of a shed. Gaps at N and S appear modern. In NE portion of the interior, a low grassed-over drystone wall, running NE-SW, possibly marks an internal division. To W of it is a quarried out area, L-shaped in plan (E-W 6.4m, N-S 5.8m), possibly a souterrain but more likely an excavation trench for the nearby shed.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.