Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Barbersfort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barbersfort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48545, -8.77114
- SMR number
- GA044-008----
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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
Enclosing a low hillock in undulating farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1927) as subcircular enclosure (E-W c. 40m). The monument has since been cut in half by a field wall running E-W, and no visible surface trace survives to N of it. To S, all that survives is a poorly preserved scarp from E to SE, and a bank of earth and stone from SE to SSW. An old field bank abuts the monument at E. A subrectangular depression (E-W; L 12m, Wth 6m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone may be the remains of a house site (GA044-008001-). A ringfort (GA044-013----) lies 100m to SE.
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 14 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.