Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fearagha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fearagha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45776, -8.99514
- SMR number
- GA042-126----
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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
In level grassland. Poorly preserved and densely overgrown circular cashel (D 21m) defined by a drystone wall overlain throughout by a field wall. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SW. A low mound is centrally placed within the interior and a CBG (GA042-126----) is associated.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.