Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahernaheeny, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahernaheeny
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caher
- Coordinates
- 53.47317, -9.07691
- SMR number
- GA042-057----
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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 ridge in undulating grassland. Two poorly preserved circular cashels lying 3m apart. The smaller one (D 27m), to NW, is cut by a field wall at NNW and SSE. To SW of this boundary, the monument is defined by a drystone wall overlain by field-clearance rubble. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Two set stones are visible within S half of the interior. The SE cashel (D 36m) also appears to have been defined by a drystone wall, now overlain throughout by a later field wall. An earthwork (GA042-059----) lies immediately to WSW of it.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.