Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carrowbeg (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbeg (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnabrocka
- Coordinates
- 53.46458, -9.14391
- SMR number
- GA041-012001-
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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 hill summit in undulating grassland. This poorly preserved cashel consists of an almost circular area (NW-SE c. 24.2m, NE-SW c. 23.5m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall from E through S to N, and by a scarp from N to E. An irregularly shaped annexe (c. 13m by c. 9m), defined by a grass-covered collapsed stone wall, abuts the cashel wall at E. Traces of old field walls are visible to W.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.