Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lough Inagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Inagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50510, -9.74163
- SMR number
- GA037-011----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In S half of Lough Inagh to W of centre. Man's Island is a small subcircular overgrown island (N-S 24.5m; E-W 22.3m) defined by a wide stone platform. This encloses an earthen flat-topped mound with traces of a retaining wall at W. The remains of a stone-lined quay are visible at E.
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
- Metalworking site1 mi
- Children's burial ground1 mi
- Stone row3 mi
- Stone row3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.