Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garraun Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48144, -8.75374
- SMR number
- GA044-053----
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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 rise in grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 33m) defined by a low drystone wall. A gap at N may be original. Within the interior are two low stone walls, one running N-S, the other NW-SE, possibly internal divisions. Traces of a possible souterrain are visible in W sector where a spoon-shaped hollow (L 11m), running E-W, is visible. A ringfort (GA044-054----) lies 100m to N.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.