Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Drumbulcaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumbulcaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55510, -8.74488
- SMR number
- GA030-132----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pastureland. This roughly subcircular cashel (c. 43m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) is clearly visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated 3/14/2016). It was identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
GA030-132----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 3/14/2016
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.