Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cahermacanally, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacanally
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahermacanally
- Coordinates
- 53.46262, -9.13582
- SMR number
- GA041-009----
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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 the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland. Correctly 'Lios na hÁilliughadh' on the basis of Hardiman's (1846, 371) reading, this monument consists of a poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (E-W c. 43m, N-S c. 41m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over stony bank. A field wall overlies the bank from E to SE and from SSW to NNW. A stone-lined gap at NNE may be original. A series of collapsed stony banks within the interior may represent internal divisions.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.