Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killymongaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killymongaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48590, -9.99565
- SMR number
- GA035-051----
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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 high rocky knoll overlooking a narrow pass, and the Owenglin river, to N. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 27m, N-S 24m) defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall, best preserved ESE-WNW. The remains of two poorly defined huts occupy the interior. (Info. M. Gibbons.) Not visited.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.