Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Garraun (coyle), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun (coyle)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48155, -8.74833
- SMR number
- GA044-058001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Towards ESE end of a field system (GA044-058----); it sits on a rise. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 38m, N-S 35m) defined by a drystone wall overlain at S by a field wall. Within W sector of interior are traces of a wall (L c. 12m), running NE-SW, possibly the last vestiges of an internal division. Another ringfort (GA044-054----) S 300m to WNW. Repositioned since compilation of SMR. (CUCAP BDT 84)
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
- Field systemunder 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.