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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48477, -8.77030
- SMR number
- GA044-013----
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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 hillock c. 100m SE of a possible cashel (GA044-008----). Oval cashel (E-W 27.5m, N-S 23.6m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall with traces of wall-facing at S and NW. A gap (Wth 2.3m) at W may be original. Abutting the monument at SE is a rectangular area (L 7.8m, Wth 5.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, probably associated. Within NE quadrant of interior is an oval hollow (N-S; L 7.6m, Wth 3.6m) defined by a low bank at W, possibly the remains a house (GA044-013001-).
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.