Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Pollacappul (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollacappul (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48982, -8.73953
- SMR number
- GA044-086----
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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 in level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 46.2m, E-W 42m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall with traces of an external batter at NNW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and S. A grassed-over stony bank (L 34m), running NE-SW, through N half of the interior could be original. Built into the inner face of the enclosing element at NW are the foundations of a rectangular stone structure (NW-SE; L 11m, Wth 4m); possibly a house.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.