Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Letterdife, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterdife
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42886, -9.92121
- SMR number
- GA050-021----
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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
Close to W shore of Loch Caimín. A subrectangular artificial island (N-S 16m, E-W 15.2m) which, though heavily overgrown, has traces of an enclosing drystone wall (H 1.25m) at W and S, and a possible quay at S. (Wood-Martin 1893, 34; Kinahan 1872, 12)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.